• "Gets to you, doesn't it? That's what a reckoning sounds like."
• "That's just love. Nothing you can do about that."
• "But this time... You can't stay and I can't go."
• "Power doesn't panic."
• "I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude."
• "Never more than twelve."
• "ONE WAY OUT!"
• "I've made my mind a sunless place. I share my dreams with ghosts."
• "I can't swim."
• "Let's call it war."
• "Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. It breaks, it leaks. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
• "Freedom is a pure idea."
• "I show you the stone in my hand, you miss the knife at your throat."
• "Tell him I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."
• "The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep."

For 13 years, every time I walk down Rix Road, I turn off before I get to the square. I take the long way around, so I don’t have to think about Clem hanging there. Then yesterday, I heard about this attack at Aldhani. I put on my best coat, and I walked across the square with a smile on my face. If there are heroes brave enough to take on a whole Imperial garrison, I’m brave enough to stick it out here.

“You’ll hang for this.”

“Seven years serving you? I deserve worse than that.”