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490 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2022
“But it turned out paths only revealed themselves one step at a time, and Reath was ready for another step.”
“The galaxy is not… it’s not the one we grew up in. It’s not the one the Order we know was built for. I don’t know where we go from here, but I know if we don’t face the new reality head-on, it will devour us whole.”
“The lesson of Youngling we take on is one of the hardest ones for most Jedi to learn. Indeed, some never do […] Detachment […] To let go. Elusive it is, but also, always available to us, always there. And then, when we grasp, gone again.”
“But Reath Silas was a Jedi. And he wouldn’t let this fight, or any fight, tear the core of what that meant away from him. Even if it cost him his life. He had a code, and he was part of a lineage of great Jedi […] who had lived and died by that code, too. And he would honor it.”
“They headed down the corridor together, the moment already morphed into a new one – their partnership easily sliding from delicate intimacy to strategic badassery without a beat missed.”
“Soon they would converge, and they would be safe, because Crash had willed it to be so, and Crash got what Crash wanted, it was known.”
“There was no such thing as not taking side. It was sheer theater in peacetime and an absolute joke during war. Neutrality, the performance of it, was something powerful people demanded of everyone else so they could stay protected.”
“They had struggled, each in their own way, to find detachment, to breathe through the impending sense of loss, the fear. Each had failed; each had tried again anyway, and then again. This was the Jedi way. There was no other.”
“It’s okay to feel everything you feel, but you gotta find balance.”
“Difficult the way forward will be. But there is a way, hm? There is always a way […] that way ourselves we must. For it has not been made yet. To do this, though, to forge our path to the future, guided by the secrets of the past, we will be.”
“But really, there was no path at all. Not now, not ever. Searching for one had always been folly. The only path was the one Reath was on, wherever he was, wherever he went […] There was no path. Which meant that the only way forward was to make one.”