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If your favorite Anakin-related quote is not here, or if you see a devastating mistake that needs correcting, feel free to type it up and send it on over. Sorry, I just don't have the time or patience. Anyhow, enjoy your plateful of trickily sappy and otherwise corny but delightful quotes.

Anakin Dice...

"Bad mens, Jaya! Bad mens!" - The Crystal Star

"Good woof." - The Crystal Star

"Mr. Threep!" - The Crystal Star

"Jaya! Jasa!" - The Crystal Star

"Just a floor, Jaya. No krakana!" - The Crystal Star

"Sometimes, when I don't plan it, something I do hurts somebody." - The New Rebellion

"Really melty, now." - Ambush at Corellia

"Following our destiny is a pretty romantic notion." - The Golden Globe

"Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." - Onslaught

"I want you to know you can trust me. I'm here to do whatever you want or need. I won't fail you." - Onslaught

"Firs the Yuuzhan Vong poison Mara, then they send an assassin against us. I'll remember what you said about vengeance...but they've made this war personal." - Hero's Trial

"Anything that will stop the Yuuzhan Vong has the Force on its side." - Jedi Eclipse

“If someone is aiming a blaster at your ally, do you raise your ligthsaber to prevent it, or do you do nothing because a Jedi isn’t supposed to take aggressive action? I mean, where’s the line, Jacen? We’re in a war for survival , and defense sometimes means having to eliminate the opposition.” - Jedi Eclipse

"We'll never win this war by being reactive. We have to be proactive. We need intelligence. We need to know which Jedi are at risk before [the enemy] comes for us." - Conquest

"There are times to use the Force in self-defense, and there are times when defense means attack. But torture for the sake of torture--never." - Conquest

"You want me to move? Come on and move me!" - Conquest

“Do I understand them? No, not completely. But I have a deeper understanding than I did. I can think of them as people now, and that makes a difference.” - Conquest

"That's the biggest trough of bantha fodder I've ever heard anyone spit up in my life." - Conquest

"I've thought about the dark side for most of my life. My mother named me after the man who became Darth Vader. The Emperor touched me through her womb. Every night I had nightmares that ended with me in my grandfather's armor. I think I've probably thought a lot more about the dark side than anyone I know." - Rebirth

"Everybody gets a nasty surprise someday, I'd rather get it standing up than lying down" - Rebirth (as you wish!)

"Let's go before someone else gets killed." - Star By Star

“Kiss Tahiri for me.” - Star By Star

Cuando He Actually Converses with Others...

The Crystal Star

           "Don't cry, Anakin. Don't cry. I'll take care of you. I'm five, so I'll take care of you, because you're only three." - Jaina
           "Three and a half!" - Anakin
           "Three and a half."

The New Rebellion

           "We made the room hot. It was my idea." - Anakin
           "It was not." - Jacen
           "Was too."
           "Anyway..." - Jaina

           "We can't go back in time and make those lives reappear, but we can help the people who have felt the loss heal." - Luke
           "Or make the people who caused it pay." - Anakin
           "If we're not careful, Anakin, that kind of vengeance will make us turn to the dark side. Then we are no better than those who fail to value life."

Attack at Corellia

           "Sneaky? Not me. I'm not sneaky." - Anakin
           "No, you aren't. And I want to make sure your brother and sister don't make you that way. They got you to help them do this, didn't they?" - Luke
           "Help? I did it, mostly. They helped me."
           "Sure you did. Sure you did. But right now, I think the question is: What are your brother and sister going to do about the little mess here?"
           "Clean it up!"
           "That's right. They're going to clean it up right after dinner. And during dinner I'll have to think about the rest of their punishment."
           "Yeah! Punishment!"

          "Push the center [button] in and hold it for three grimnals." - Anakin
          "What the heck is a grimnal?" - Jacen
          "I don't know, but that's how long you hold it in."

Assault at Selonia

           "Well, um, I gotta-" - Anakin
           "And don't tell me it's the bathroom. You just went." - Jacen
           "Oh, yeah," said Anakin. "Well, um, I gotta get up and- and- find my bookchip. I need it to read."
           "Oh, brother. How dumb does he think we are? Jacen, did we used to do this?" - Jaina
           "We must have. I just hope we were better at it."
           "Better at what? What?" - Anakin
           "Being sneaky. If you're going to tell a fib, at least think up the whole thing before you start. No one believes you when you stop halfway through like that. And besides, the bookchip is a really bad excuse. You can barely read yet." - Jaina

Vector Prime

"That's not the truth of the Force. You keep thinking of it as a tool, a weapon in your war against everything you see as bad. But that is such a limiting philosophy." - Jacen
"It is a weapon. A powerful weapon and a great responsibility." - Anakin

Onslaught

           "Using the Force isn't the only answer, you know. Chewbacca didn't use it, and he saved your life, your father's life, and countless other lives." - Mara
           "Don't be trying to tell me Chewie's death isn't my fault." - Anakin
           "I suspect you've heard that a lot, haven't you?"
           "Yes, and don't try reversing things around and talking me into defending myself, either. I may be young, but I'm not stupid."
           "I know that. You're not stupid, but you are naive. That expression of outrage, very becoming."

Ruin

           "I made a mistake and [Chewbacca] died. I made a mistake and you are dying." - Anakin
           "There is no death...there is only the Force." - Daeshara'cor
           "It still hurts."
          "I know. Anakin, you have to know, even though I am dying, I would not change things...neither would Chewbacca."
          "How can you say--"
          "He died...I die...in service to life. You saved me from the darkness. I saved you...not in recompense, but so you can continue serving life, the Force."
          "I will never be as good a servant as you or Chewie."
          "You already are, Anakin, and will be greater. As you heal, you will be stronger than anyone can imagine. We are proud of you, so proud..

“Learn from things, don’t repeat mistakes.” - Jacen
“Good thing some mistakes can’t be repeated.” - Anakin

Hero's Trial

"It's going to be all right, you know." - Han
"What is--the war, my feeling terrible about Chewie, or your taking off without letting anyone know where you're going?" - Anakin

Conquest

           "Hi, Tahiri." - Anakin
           "Hi, yourself, great hero-from-the-stars who's too good to keep in touch with his best friend." - Tahiri
           "I've--"
           "Been busy. Right."

"Happy birthday." - Anakin
"You should have thought of it then, but thanks anyway. Dummy." - Tahiri

           "Be careful, Anakin. You don't have to buy us a lot of time. When you need to go, go. We need you alive." - Kam Solusar
           "I don't plan to die." - Anakin
           "Most people don't. It happens anyway."

           "Your anger. You have built yourself a vessel to contain it, but the crucible itself will one day melt from the heat. then you will burn, and others with you. Many others, possibly." - Ikrit
           "The Yuzzhan Vong make my angry, Master. They're destroying everything I know, everything I love." - Anakin
           "No. You make you angry. People die; you are angry because you could not save them...their deaths are inscribed on you. Death comes to call. You cannot hold water in your hands for long. It leaks away, goes where it is meant to go. To the soil and sky. To ions, and then to space, where stars are born."
           "That's poetic, Master Ikrit, but it's not an answer. My grandfather was Darth Vader, and he killed billions. But that was after decades of the dark side. I'm only sixteen, and look what I've done. Darth Vader would be proud."
           "It is to your credit that you feel those deaths, that you mourn. But you did not kill those people. You did not wish them dead and then bring it to pass...You must let your anger go. Angry steps have worn a rutted path to the dark side. It is an easy path to follow, difficult to avoid."

"Feelings are tools, too, if you don't let them control you." - Anakin
"And how are you to know when a feeling controls you? When anger guides your hand or stays it?" - Ikrit

           "You have restraining cuffs here somewhere?" - Anakin
           "Maybe." - Remis Vehn
           "I can cut your arms off and get more or less the same effect."

           "I've just been vomited by a fish," - Anakin
           "Obviously. Why are you telling me?" - Vua Rapuung
           "Never mind."

           "Pray me you are not one of the gods. If you are, death will be tedious." -Vua Rapuung
           "Yeah, you're welcome." - Anakin

           "The fire - it passed over us." - Vua Rapuung
           "It did." - Anakin
           "And we live."
           "We do."
           "This was your doing? Another Jeedai sorcery?"
           "Something like that."
           "Then you saved my life. How disgusting. How unfortunate."
           "No, don't gush on so. It was nothing, really."

"I will kill you." - Vua Rapuung
"You're welcome to try." - Anakin

"May we at last embrace our foes." - Vua Rapuung
"You embrace them. I'm going to knock them down." - Anakin

"You aren't real. None of this is. You are a lie." - Tahiri
"It's not a lie, Tahiri. You are my best friend. I love you." - Anakin

"They put things in my head, Anakin. I don't know what's real anymore." - Tahiri
"I'm real. And I'm going to get you out of this. Believe me." - Anakin

          "When did you start talking so much?" - Tahiri
          "When did you start coughing up one word at a time as if three or four were going to break your mouth?" - Anakin
           "Just shut up, will you? I liked you better the other way." - Tahiri

Rebirth

           "Do you think you can manage a hibernation trance? Our air will last a lot longer that way." - Anakin
           "I'm not sure. I've never done it." - Tahiri
           "I'll help. just clear your mind--"
           "You must not know very much about girls. You just kissed me and now you want me to clear my mind? it's like there's a tribe of ewoks dancing in there!"

"What?" - Anakin
"Should I have left you two un-chaperoned?" - Corran Horn

           "You know I trust you" - Anakin
           "Really? I almost killed you back on Yavin Four, you know." - Tahiri
           "I know. And I know that wasn't really you."
           "No? I'm not sure. Sometimes I don't know who I am anymore."
           "I do. You aren't the same as you were before the Yuuzhan Vong captured you. Neither am I. But you're still Tahiri."
           "Whatever that means."

“I would never hurt you.” - Tahiri
“Who said anything about you hurting me?” - Anakin

           "If you hadn't rescued me I would be one of them now. I wouldn't remember any other life." - Tahiri
           "Part of you would have always known. There's something in you, Tahiri, that no one could ever change." - Anakin
           "You keep saying things like that. What do you mean? Is it good or bad? You mean I'm too stubborn, or what?"
           "I mean you're too Tahiri."
           "Oh. I guess I'll take that as a compliment, since you never give me any obvious ones."

“Are they all that ugly?” - Anakin (on his freshly brewed baby cousin)
“You’ll want to rephrase that after what I just went through. Think in the general direction of antonyms.” - Mara Jade Skywalker

Star By Star

"You? You're too--" - Anakin
"If you say 'young', I'll kick you where you really don't want to be kicked." - Tahiri

           "You are the one in control, Jaina Solo. Who will be [tortured] next? Your brother, or your twin?" - Duman Yaght
           "They're both my brothers. And I choose neither. I choose me." - Jaina
           "That is not your choice. You must choose Anakin or Jacen. You are the master now, Jaina Solo."
           "You can't ask that. I can't choose."
           "Jaina, you can choose. You can choose me." - Anakin
           "Anakin--" - Jacen
           "Be quiet, Jacen. Choose." - Anakin
           "Anakin...take Anakin." - Jaina

          "By the Sith, Anakin, why did you do something like that?" - Jaina
          "Like what? We lost two...and I wasn't going to...You were in trouble." - Anakin
          "And now you are. Anakin, this was really...Are you ever going to learn?"

          "Anakin, how bad is it? Let me--" - Tahiri
          "Tahiri, stop. It's just a little cut." - Anakin

           "You can feel sorry for yourself. You were reckless, Anakin, and you paid the price--and that's not the point. You need to stop blaming yourself." - Jaina
           "Who should I blame?" - Anakin
           "The war...If people die, people die."
           "That's a little cold."
           "I'll cry at home."

           "You don't have to let them push you around. You're still team leader." -Tahiri
           "Some leader. I keep getting people killed." - Anakin
           "People are getting killed. Who says it's your fault?"
           "I do. They do."
           "Neg that! They just want you to get us out of here. So do I. Think of something--fast."

           "I'll be along." - Anakin
           Tahiri tries to give him a goodbye kiss, but stops herself.
           "No--for that you have to come back."
           "Soon, then."
           "Soon. May the Force be with you."

Critics say...

"Your timing is perfect. Wait until we're doomed to give me my first kiss." - Tahiri Veila

"Anakin, I was flying when you were nothing more than an fight brewing between Han and Leia. Before that, even. Give me credit for knowing a thing or two." - Corran Horn

"The deeds of heroes send ripples spreading through the Force. Anakin's life continues to flow outward, touching and guiding those who have yet to hear his name. Most of us here use the Force--this young man embodied it." - Kyp Durron

"I mean, I'm not the kind of girl who'll just kiss anyone on a first-time-to-be-stuck-in-a-locker-in-an-airless-spacestation." - Tahiri

"You look like the champion of the galaxy." - Mara Jade Skywalker

“The buzz is that you’re the next Luke Skywalker, at the very least.” -Corran Horn

"Anakin, master of all machines. Just tell me what to do, and I shall do it. So long as pushing the wrong button doesn't drop the planet into the sun, or any such trivial inconvenience." - Q9

"Careful, Anakin. You're beginning to sound like Dad." - Jaina

"Yep. 'Han Solo Jr.' Isn't he handsome?" - Han

"He's more like Kyp that he thinks, but he doesn't see it. He's been through so much and he's too young to easily absorb what he's had to deal with...He's carrying around all that pain and some day that's bound to add up to something he's not experienced enough to handle. Grief and guilt are only a micron away from anger and hatred. And he's still reckless, still thinks he's immortal despite all of the death he's seen." - Luke Skywalker

"Anakin is a pragmatic lad." - Mara Jade Skywalker

"I was drawn here for another reason, slept for centuries for another cause...to see something new born in you and Tahiri. And to give whatever small help I am able to give to see that birth arrive." - Ikrit

“You left him. You turned and ran away while Chewie stood his ground and died. Chewie, who had just done everything to save you. You left him!” - Han Solo

"You are so very earnest, Anakin. It is really quite adorable." - Lomi Plo

"My little fish." - Admiral Ackbar

"As I hoped. As I expected from the Skywalker line." - Hethrir

“He’s losing faith in everything he’s counted on his whole life.” - Luke Skywalker

"Remember. You two are better than the sum of your parts. Together, you could--No. I've said enough. Together, that's the important thing. Now go." - Ikrit

         "What's he doing?" - Jacen
           "I don't know, exactly. He just walked over to that spot and stopped dead, and started talking to the floor." - Jaina
           "Has it answered?"
           "Not yet."

"We want to be like you, Anakin. We all do. And you--you would never have run from a fight." - Valin Horn

“Don’t lie to me, Anakin. The desire to be out there saving the galaxy is in your blood so thick I can hear it screaming from here.” - Mara Jade Skywalker

"You wish to save her life. How pitiful. What a pitiful goal." - Vua Rapuung

"I have come to understand that you are ignorant rather than stupid, but others will not be as forgiving." - Uunu

"He takes pain well, your brother. Perhaps we try something new, yes?" - Duman Yaght

           "Sounds like there's some division in the ranks." -Talon Karrde
          "That would be Jacen and Anakin." - Luke Skywalker
          "Complementing one another, no doubt."

           "Those terrible things I said to him...I drove him to it. He had to prove--" - Han
           "No. Listen to me, old buddy. Anakin died because he was a Jedi Knight doing what Jedi Knights do--not because of what happened to Chewbacca, not because he was trying to prove anything to you." - Lando Calrissian
           "How would you know? He wasn't your son."
           "No, he wasn't. But I was the one who turned him over to the Yuuzhan Vong. He didn't blame himself for what happened to Chewbacca...and he knew how much you loved him. Everyone could see that."

"You never mean to do anything wrong. But most times it just turns out that way." - Tahiri

"Did trusting the Force save Anakin?" - Mara Jade Skywalker
"Perhaps Anakin was meant to save us." - Luke Skywalker

"The New Republic? Are you blind? There is no New Republic! It died before the Yuuzhan Vong came!" - Leia Organa Solo
"It didn't! Because if it did, then Anakin died for nothing!" - Han Solo

"I was so sorry to hear about Anakin." - Winter
"He was always grateful to you. If it weren't for you, he wouldn't have had the last fourteen years of his life. And it's not just Anakin who was grateful for that, it's Jaina and I and everyone who knew him." - Jacen

“He learned something there that the rest of us don’t know, something that could have made all the difference, if only he’d had time to figure it out. If there is such a thing as destiny, I think that was Anakin’s. He has always been different. Special...With Anakin’s death I lost a brother, but the Jedi lost something I can’t begin to define. My feelings tell me it’s something important, something we lost a very long time ago.” - Jaina Solo

“I witnessed the death of perhaps the greatest of them all, the one called Anakin Solo, who gave up his life so that the ones he loved might live" - Nom Anor

"We lost a son, not our hearing." - Han Solo

"Anakin is trying to kill me!" - Tahiri Veila

"To all of our sons and all of our daughters be they with us or beyond" - Han Solo