Star Wars: Light of the Jedi (The High Republic)

This felt inevitable. Certain.
Evil, horror, sweeping across the galaxy like the tide.
He saw Jedi dying, screaming, and himself last of all, unable to escape what was coming

Elzar watched her go, then turned and looked out at the stars, at the emptiness of space, the deepest sea of all.

He wondered what she thought of the look he was giving her just then. If she might be drowning a bit, too

The look she gave him was like that sea he found inside himself, the Force, deep and endless and impossible to fully comprehend.
You could drown in it.
“We are Jedi,” he said.
“We are,” she replied.
She looked away, and let go of his hand, and he was no longer drowning, but perhaps some part of him wished he was

In the space outside the station, anyone who looked would see a surging glow rush out from the beautiful, open space at its heart, pushing back the darkness.
The light of the Jedi

see a galaxy where we use our strengths to shore up each other’s weaknesses, where we understand and celebrate our differences and hold them up as valuable

Plans can fail, at any step along the way. I have a goal, and goals can be achieved in any number of ways

Every time she heard them, her heart lifted. That was the goal. One idea. One sentiment.
She could do it. Everyone could do it.
Chancellor Soh knew it was true. Five words.
We are all the Republic

The Republic was not one world. It was many, each unique in ways large and small. Solving one problem inevitably caused others

There is a point where every being breaks, and chooses freedom over tyranny. Kassav’s people did this for themselves. For each other. And for us.”