There is more than one sort of prison, Captain, " Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.

Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?" Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope, " he said

He hadn't known her, didn't know her, of course. There wasn't the time.

I don’t need luck, ” Chirrut said. “I have you.

I’m not used to people sticking around when things go bad, ” she said, by way of explanation.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .