Star Wars Fanon:Quote of the Week/History/2009

The quote of the week history for 2009 page is a listing of all quotes of the week that appeared on the Star Wars Fanon Main Page in. The quotes are listed by the month and date upon which they first appeared. If the archive skips a date, this is due to the prior week's quote being showcased for an additional week. For a list of other yearly archives, please see the main history page.

January 4
"This war will be fought not on another planet or on some distant star system, but amongst us, our homes, and our cities. Our children will learn of it by witnessing it outside the windows and witness the horror of war. It is a pity, really, the business of this kind of war."

- Cassius Panaka

January 18
"I was still down there in my A-wing, covering our ground troops when the bombardment began. I'm not sure how to describe it. I was there in the battle one minute, all the troops and vehicles were there... and the next minute the entire valley was being engulfed in flame. I honestly don't know how I managed to get out of there in time. I never knew what hell looked like until Bakura."

- after the Second Battle of Bakura

February 8
"And now you witness the result of everything you have fought for on this world, and the beginning of the destruction to what you have ever lived for. Dantooine will burn, until when I look upon it, it shall be a mirror of what your Republic did to my own world."

- Qymaen jai Sheelal to Idnum-Ki

February 15
"I’m just the middle-man, the fall-guy. The blind-eyed, half-stupid nerf-herder, you know how it is. No one tells me anything."

- Nobu Djuren

February 22
"We’ll get something to eat, and you can decide if you want to tell me why you look like something gundarks messed with."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker

March 8
"Interpretation is the key."

- Ussej Padric Bac

March 22
"Nice escorts. You sure are the hospitable type, aren’t you?"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Nute Gunray, after realizing that the “ambassadorial escorts” sent to welcome him were actually battle droid assassins

April 5
"...all eyes tell a story, and that story is fear. Fear attracts the fearful and those foolish enough to believe that they're fearless. It brings out the strong, the weak, the innocent and the corrupt, such as yourself. Fear is my strongest ally. It tells me everything I need to know about a victim. Would you like to know your story, Gunray?"

- Lord Maul taunts Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray while torturing him

April 12
"I…I have to kill you. I can't let the Sith return. That's the point of the Council of Seers, which you were part of. Preventing the return of the Sith. I'm doing that now…selflessly. As a Jedi. I – I'm sorry, my Master. This is the end for you."

- Dular to Darth Taral upon learning that he was a

May 17
"Good people can do bad things, sometimes quite horrible things, for what they think are the right reasons."

- Anakin Skywalker

May 31
"Haven't we discussed this before? Mind tricks are a bad influence on the children."

- Jayo Chev'ris to his wife, Thracia Cho-Leem, after the latter used a Jedi mind trick on a ticketmaster.

June 7
"Ignorance, the dark side is not. Selfishness, it is. The dark side, we call it, not because one can't see, but because too preoccupied with himself to bother seeing, a dark one is."

- Yoda, to Sa'Madhi Tatthya

June 21
"It was arguably one of the worst battles of the war. General's orders were being ignored. Friendly fire was evident. The ground was so drenched by bloodshed, some soldiers were actually slipping and falling. Hell, soldiers were so confused, they sometimes unknowingly listened to the commands from generals of opposing sides!"

- A soldier from the Savi Alliance describing the Battle of Casilis

July 5
"It's a good thing he was expelled. customers were spared from finding out what true 'finger food' is!"

- Nik'tak in regards to the circumstances surrounding Pepan Manja's expulsion from a culinary institute.

July 12
"Look at this sweet baby. She's fast, tough, easy to fix...and she's got inbuilt air-conditioning, best of all."

- A Simiyar tech soldier on the Hopper attack craft

August 2
"If the brute force approach doesn't work, you're obviously not using enough brute force."

- Theta, instructing a Death watch engineer on how to destroy the palace gates

August 16
"...only a storm can create a rainbow."

- Ussej Padric Bac LXIV

August 23
"The secrets of the galaxy are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them."

- Caecum Veritas

September 13
"I relish the day when my tongue will scrape the flesh from that bug's carapace..."

- Pepan Manja in regards to his capture by the

October 11
"Oh dear, he has always been such a cocky droid. From what I gather, it all started when he saved the queen’s ship, just before I met him. It was as if it was meant to be."

- C-3PO, speaking about R2-D2

October 18
"Empires based solely on faith cannot be sustained. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

- Bacatine, Journal of the Whills, 4:17

November 8
"When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt Run in little circles Wave your arms and shout."

- Parody of the Imperial Inspector's pledge

November 15
"All saviors begin their great journeys as skeptics."

- Elias, Journal of the Whills, 3:74

November 22
"If you cannot make a fool see sense with words, thermonuclear saturation bombardment from high orbit should suffice."

- Jasef Yuiln

December 6
"The only major difference between war and politics is you don't get to shoot the guy on the opposing side."

- Joe Tylars comments on politics

December 20
"Have you seen the suffering of those who starve because of this war? Have you seen the look of despair in a mother's eyes when she looks to her children and tells them their father is dead? Do you see your friends and comrades falling around you and know that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, nothing will help them? Have you seen the bodies, oh so many bodies that have been broken and destroyed or the ruins of those once great cities and races that now burn because of your inaction? Have you seen anything besides the mounds of credits you pile before you and shove in your fat faces?"

- raging at the inaction of the

December 27
"I am the motivator of spirit....conqueror of despair... defeater of darkness. I am the chosen of the light. I will not die without a fight."

- Scott Borek divulging his mantra or motto to his peers