Quotes About Anakin

#1. Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.

Claudia Gray

#2. Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance.
Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already.

Jude Watson

#3. As I told you on Naboo, Anakin," he said finally, "we will continue to follow your career with great interest." And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of the Sith!

James Luceno

#4. Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.
Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

George Lucas

#5. But you could see deep inside Darth was struggling. Because deep inside he was Anakin. There's no Anakin in Trane Keaton! I shouted then I found myself on my back in the bed with Chace on top of me.

Kristen Ashley

#6. There's something weird going on down here. I don't know what Lando's got us into, but I've got a - " "Bad feeling about it?" Anakin finished, managing a sheepish grin at stealing his father's trademark line.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.

Rachel Vincent

#8. When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart.

Jude Watson

#9. Easy isn't for Jedi. Of course, trying to find your own path is much more difficult. Maybe what you have to do is walk a bit on the other paths and see how you can waeve bits and pieces of them together."
- Anakin Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

#10. How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn - and not from his Master. From Palpatine.

Jude Watson

#11. No Sith remain," Tashu says. "And the lone Jedi that exists - the son of Anakin Skywalker - possesses an untouchable soul.

Chuck Wendig

#12. You are in my very soul, tormenting me, Anakin went on, not a bit of falseness in his tone.

R.A. Salvatore

#13. Drall's lighter gravity is going to Jacen's head. He's convinced that our coming here is going to upset the balance of the Force or something.
-Anakin Solo

James Luceno

#14. And Anakin is on his way despite the dread boiling through his blood. That's what makes him a real hero. Not the way the HoloNet labels him; not without fear, but stronger than fear.
He looks the dragon in the eye and doesn't even slow down.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#15. Qui-Gon used to do this. He used to roam around the galaxy picking up strays." "Like me, you mean?" said Anakin tightly. "Useless hangers-on like me?

Karen Miller

#16. I don't know what I'll be in the future, Anakin, but I know you'll be a great Jedi Knight."
- Jacen Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

#17. Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze. -Anakin Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

#18. Vader might very well be Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, whom Tarkin had fought beside during the Clone Wars, and for whom he had developed a grudging appreciation.

James Luceno

#19. Part of being a Jedi is setting an example."

-Corran Horn to Anakin Solo

Greg Keyes

#20. And the lone Jedi that exists - the son of Anakin Skywalker - possesses an untouchable soul. At least for now.

Chuck Wendig

#21. Some people say that once married, people tend to let themselves go. Well, he decided to go the way of Anakin and let himself go to the dark side.

Rebecca Espinoza

#22. Could Vader actually be Anakin Skywalker? the two men wondered. Based on Obi-Wan's account of what had occurred on Mustafar, Anakin's survival didn't seem possible. But perhaps Obi-Wan had underestimated Anakin. Perhaps Anakin's peerless strength in the Force had allowed him to survive.

James Luceno

#23. That's because it is cruel, Obi-Wan," Anakin snapped. "Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order." He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.

Karen Miller

#24. Very bad joke," Obi-Wan muttered. "D'you know, there are times when you and Bail Organa are uncannily alike."
Anakin kept a straight face, just. "Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment," growled Obi-Wan,

Karen Miller

#25. I think - " Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. "I think I hate it when I can't stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think -

Karen Miller

#26. Qui-Gon believes that the boy - Anakin is his name - stands at the center of a vergence in the Force, and believes further that his finding him was the will of the Force.

James Luceno

#27. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?

Farshad Asl

#28. If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

James Luceno

#29. Maybe it wasn't about being alone. Maybe the answer wasn't about hiding from those who wanted something, but about finding those who needed help but would never considering asking.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#30. My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.

Sean Pertwee

#31. One of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Fortunately, Luke's unwavering faith in his father's innate goodness had proved to be a stronger force than the power of the dark side.

Ryder Windham

#33. A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

Grant Show

#34. I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

Yukimi Nagano

#35. You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy ... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-

J.K. Rowling

#36. Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Sydney J. Harris

#37. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her.
Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? ... I call that business.

Oscar Wilde

#38. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

David James Duncan

#39. Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch