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“Apparently, every once in a while, leadership meant abandoning decorum and yelling as loud as you could.” (Leia Quotes)
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Authority can be given, but leadership must be earned.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“But she never called for them. She never wanted to find out for sure that they wouldn’t come.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Do you think they’ll finally accept that the Empire will only be defeated through direct action?”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Good intentions aren’t enough. They’re not meaningless, but – that’s where we have to start. Not where we end.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Great evil can only be fought by the strong. People need spiritual fuel as much as they need food, water, and air. Happiness, love, joy, hope—these are the emotions that give us the strength to do what we need to do.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“How many people die because of Palpatine’s rule every year? Is it deadlier to fight against that kind of tyranny or to let it flourish? When is it time to give up on peace and take up arms?”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“It wasn’t like she had tons of experience, but the kiss seemed like a good one to her. Great, even. Possibly even spectacular. Then Kier kissed her again, and she realized it could get even better, more than she’d ever dreamed.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“It’s true. I’m not imagining it. They don’t pay attention to me anymore. Did I do something wrong? Or do they just not care?”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“My growth is stunted already. If I’m stuck being short, I may as well have the caf.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“My parents. My friends. My world. These are the things the Empire can never take away.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Nobody learns anything new without failing the first few times they try. You have to face that and figure out how to get back up again. That means learning how to fail is the most important lesson of all.” (Leia Quotes)
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Nobody liked to admit this, but courage had a short half-life. You had to act while you had it.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“People weren’t just complaining about the Empire anymore. They had begun fighting back.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“She told herself, You can’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. But this wasn’t dirt. This was blood.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“Thank goodness it’s a big galaxy.” And she’d already found someone extraordinary in it.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“The impatience you felt before kissing someone you liked wasn’t nearly as bad as the impatience you felt afterward.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“The point of a negotiation is to make each party feel as though they’ve won.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“We hate the Empire’s cruelty and violence. How can we claim to be morally superior when we stoop to violence ourselves?” Mon Mothma answered him. “There comes a time when refusing to stop violence can no longer be called nonviolence. We cease to be objectors and become bystanders. At some point, morality must be wedded to action, or else it’s no more than mere…vanity.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“We must try to stand and succeed, but we must never fail to stand.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“What place could be farther from anti-Imperial activity than Palpatine’s home planet? They’d be nothing but happy to learn of her trip to the Naboo system.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“With a deliberately melodramatic sigh, Breha put one hand to the front of her scarlet silk wrapper. “I suppose a tiny bit of me hoped that my daughter’s first romance wouldn’t be so…suitable. Sometimes it does a girl good to fall for a bit of a scoundrel, now and then.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“You deserve to have your own life. You deserve to have someone who puts you first.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
“You’re learning the most powerful lesson of all, my daughter,” Breha continued. “You’re learning how to fall.”
Claudia Gray
Leia
