Aaron Allston

“Sithspit! What's that?''That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.''Well, it offends me. Turn it off.''It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.''Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me.”

“A green X-wing closed in tighter to the formation. "Yes, sir." Though distorted by the comm system, the voice sounded indulgent rather than military."That's 'Yes, Wedge' until we're formally returned to duty." The commander smiled. "Or perhaps, 'Yes, Exalted One.' Or 'Yes, O envy of all Corellia.' Or-”

“No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.-General Wedge Antilles”

“That was interesting.""He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.""He was furtive.""Sneaky, even.""We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.""You haven't heard all our ideas."Luke & Bhindi Drayson”

“And these have been successfully tested.""Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact."Face & Luke”

“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.""Crash.""Quite slowly."Face & Luke”

“Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table."Han (to Leia)”

“Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn.""I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."Luke & Jaina”

“Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?"Mara to Luke”

“Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want.""We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to.""Thanks."Wedge & Tycho”

“That's treason. I like it."Booster”

“With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs."Diss Ti'wyn”

“Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war.""Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so."Mudlath & Han”

“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die."Mara”

“When are they going to stop calling me General?""When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"Han & Leia”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.”

“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.”

“I hope you’re rushing to tell me that the chef has acquired Jacen Solo’s entrails and is braising them for dinner.”“Not quite, Admiral.”“Life is full of disappointments.”

“I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?”“Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.”Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.”

“…The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.”

“Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers.”

“I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.”

“Begging your pardon, sir, but you’re crazy enough to be a Wraith.""Until you’ve crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what ‘crazy’ means.”

“Welcome aboard Mon Remonda. Let’s get the rest of your pilots in... so I can get out of this torture suit.""But, sir, I was just going to say how smart you looked in your uniform. I think we ought to stay here, in uniform, a couple of hours so the holographers can capture the image. You know, for the historians.""Wedge, I think I’m going to have you killed.""Yes, sir. I trust you’ll wear your dress uniform for an event like that.”

“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.""No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission.""We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind.""Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic.""Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!""I withdraw my objection.”

“Tomer: “What's this?”Cabinet: “Wt's ths?”Wedge: “Cabinet.”Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.”Cabinet: “...ts tlkng”Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.”Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.”Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

“I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.”

“No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.”

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”