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"I'll pour the wine and you tell me what you like best about me."
―Ben Skywalker, doing his impersonation of Lando Calrissian
―Ben Skywalker, doing his impersonation of Lando Calrissian
- Luke: "Your feelings betray you, Ben."
- Ben: "Betray me? Do they stab me in the back, or do they just give me a swift kick in the butt?"
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker, on Endor[src]
- Ben: "Do you wax your beard?"
- Harran: "I do not."
- Ben: "It just seems very shiny. Do you oil it?"
- Harran: "I do not oil it. I condition it. And I brush it."
- Ben: "Do you brush it with butter?"
- ―Ben Skywalker, testing his improvisational skills on Testan ke Harran while on a mission to Adumar[src]
- Luke: "What's one of the first things you learned in training to be a Jedi?"
- Ben: "Don't cut your own head off with your lightsaber."
- Luke: "After that."
- Ben: "Your eyes can deceive you. Be mindful of your feelings. Girls are fun but dangerous. Lando has extra cards up his sleeve."
- Luke: "Well, the truth is in there somewhere…"
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker, on the diverse training of the New Jedi Order[src]
"Sorry about my last message. Dad assures me that whining is a family trait and that I should be over it by the time I'm thirty, but that's not much comfort, because if you're any example, it just turns into complaining."
―Ben Skywalker, in a message to Jaina Solo[src]
- Luke: "Ben, what is our purpose as Jedi?"
- Ben: "Well… to keep the Force in balance and to help people stay in balance with the Force. To detect wrongs and make them right. To serve as models for very attractive lines of boots."
- Luke: "Let's go back one."
- ―Luke Skywalker, helping his son focus on their shared objective[src]
- Ben: "We're choosing new names?"
- Luke: "No."
- Ben: "Oh. That's sad. I was looking forward to being Sparky."
- Luke: "Sounds like a name for a monkey-lizard."
- Ben: "And you could be Grand Master Whango Mittphool."
- Luke: "Not in this lifetime."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker[src]
"Bang your head against the desktop, fast! Just checking whether the Force can have an affect on the weak-minded in text mode. I'm guessing not."
―Ben Skywalker, in a letter to Jaina Solo[src]
- "Dad, what's kriffing?"
- ―Ben Skywalker, after hearing a shocking display of vulgarity by his poppa
"I don't think I've ever seen so many brown robes together in one place. It's like a showroom for the world's dullest textile factory."
―Ben Skywalker, on seeing most of the New Jedi Order in one room
―Ben Skywalker, on seeing most of the New Jedi Order in one room
"You have the manners of a bantha with digestion problems. If you had children, I hope they were raised by piranha-beetles so they'd be nicer than you."
―Ben Skywalker, dissin' an old lady
―Ben Skywalker, dissin' an old lady
- Ben: "Jedi Skywalkers. Practicing a fine family tradition of rescuing people from the dark side."
- Luke: "Hey, there are worse family traditions."
- Ben: "Like Aunt Leia's spiceloaf."
- Luke: "You think the dark side is scary, you say that to her."
- Ben: "I won't. I like my body intact, thank you very much."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "Hungry?"
- Ben: "I'm sixteen. Of course I'm hungry."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "I got my brains from Mom."
- Luke: "As well as your tendency toward verbal abuse."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "I activated my lightsaber first. That's not what Jedi do. We protect and defend those who can't defend themselves. So I failed my first test on the whole light side–dark side thing pretty miserably."
- Ben: "You know, it gives me hope that you screwed up so badly and so consistently as a kid, Dad."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "How do you feel? Better than you look, I hope."
- Rhondi: "That's nice." [turns to Luke] "If you want grandchildren someday, you need to have a conversation with your son about how to talk to the ladies."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Rhondi Tremaine[src]
- Ben: "Have a peaceful…whatever."
- Jacen: "
Damnation." - ―Ben Skywalker and the spirit of Jacen Solo[src]
- Luke: "Tell you what, if you think it's wrong for you to think of them as ugly, just think of how you look to them. Short, squat, unlined skin, a nose that puffs up like a rodent, tiny little mouth with jagged white things in it, a horrible shrub-like growth on your head."
- Ben: "This, from the man who's worn a bowl-cut hairstyle almost all his adult life."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker, discussing how the Kel Dor view Humans and Luke's dated hairstyle[src]
- Ben: "
Dad. Jacen. Coruscant. Answers." - Luke: "I don't like it that you can win an argument without using verbs."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker[src]
"If you start to feel evil, tell me as soon as possible. Don't wait and cut my hand off first."
―Ben Skywalker, to Luke
―Ben Skywalker, to Luke
"You're not married, and you had a baby! You guys are going to be in so much trouble."
―Ben Skywalker, to Jacen and Tenel Ka, after seeing Allana
―Ben Skywalker, to Jacen and Tenel Ka, after seeing Allana
- Ben: "I have our tactic."
- Luke: "Yes?"
- Ben: "When the rocks fall, we get out of the way."
- Luke: "Thank you for reducing our task to its basic components. Come on."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker, debating how to deal with a rockfall trap[src]
- Vestara: "Where, exactly, is my pack of lies?"
- Ben: "You just admitted they were a pack of lies."
- Vestara: "Perhaps I lied."
- ―Vestara Khai and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "Your emotions betray you."
- Ben: "Your emotions wander around short-sheeting beds and putting everyone's hands in bowls of warm water."
- Luke: "Would you please stop saying things like that?"
- Ben: "Sorry. I just got tired of hearing the same old phrases, the same old way, year after year. I think that's why Master Yoda mangled his Basic for the archival recordings. After nine hundred years, he was sick of hearing the same old things the same old way. Use the same cliché phrases too long and people stop hearing their message, you know?"
- ―Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "Don't feel bad. Civilized politics are even worse."
- Kaminne: "How so?"
- Ben: "Incompetents don't automatically get killed right away. Sometimes they even get reelected."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Kaminne Sihn[src]
- Ben: "Dad, what if we're completely wrong?"
- Luke: "I'm always prepared to entertain that suggestion. The universe is nothing if not humbling."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "A Jedi without a lightsaber—"
- Ben: "Is a lot less dashing to the girls."
- Luke: "Not what I was going to say, but probably true."
- ―Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "Dad, is it true that Teneniel Djo tried to marry you against your will?"
- Luke: "If marry is the word, yes. So be careful who you smile at around here. I'm not ready to be a grandfather. Or even a father-in-law."
- Ben: "Don't worry. What are my prospects here? A bunch of women who are used to ruling their men, and one Sith girl."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "Your thoughts betray you."
- Luke: "I'm going to shake you so hard… I'm certain that you got nothing through the Force about my thoughts."
- Ben: "Not everything is the Force, Dad. First you looked off in the direction where we had our traps and bodies and so forth the other night. Then you scanned the tree line all around, but not the lake. So you were thinking about avenues of approach toward the camp, which meant enemies, which meant Nightsisters. You checked the sun, which, since it's usually there, means you were really estimating time until sundown, so you were asking how much time minimum we had before the Nightsisters attack."
- Luke: "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let you train with the Guard. You think you might be happier dispensing caf or sketching caricatures?"
- ―Ben Skywalker makes good use of his GAG training against his father[src]
- Tadar'Ro: "It is such a strange concept, to prophesy. To think that events are so firm. Like stone, rather than like wind and water and thought. And yet – he has seen things, and they have come to pass."
- Ben: "Coincidence, or misinterpretation. People hear what they want to hear. Keep it vague enough, and a prophecy or prediction'll fit pretty much anything."
- Tadar'Ro: "The young one speaks wisdom."
- ―Aing-Tii Tadar'Ro, discussing prophecy with Ben Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "I've… got a strange feeling."
- Luke: "What is it?"
- Ben: "As if… as if I've been here before!"
- Luke: "If I weren't such a tolerant parent I'd box your ears."
- Vestara: "I'll do it."
- Ben: "You would."
- ―Jedi Ben and Luke Skywalker and Sith Vestara Khai, on approach to the Maw[src]
- Ben: "Mind reading a new Force power you picked up and forgot to tell me about?"
- Luke: "No. I'm your father. That's my job."
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "It was the smoke. I picked it up on the Shadow's sensors and thought there might be a…a problem."
- Taalon: "A fight, you mean. And so you crossed the ridge on foot, because you thought we would still be in combat…an hour later?"
- Ben: "Well, yeah. There are two of you, so I thought it would take Dad a while to finish you off."
- Luke: "Your lack of faith hurts me. Clearly, we need to elevate your training sessions."
- ―Sith High Lord Sarasu Taalon, Ben Skywalker, and Luke Skywalker[src]
- Ben: "She was chasing me."
- Gavar: "She was behind you? And you are still alive?"
- ―Ben Skywalker and Gavar Khai, on Vestara Khai[src]
- Ben: "Don't get killed, Dad. You know what it did to Fett. I don't want to end up like him."
- Luke: "Filthy rich?"
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker, shortly before the latter participates in an assault on Fondor[src]
- Vestara: "That's the difference between young Sith and young Jedi, Ben. We are taught to follow orders."
- Ben: "Yeah, I see that. But when are you taught to think?"
- ―Vestara Khai and Ben Skywalker at the Pool of Knowledge[src]
- Luke: "And there's something else. I sensed a disturbance in the Force."
- Ben: "That's... hardly ever a good thing."
- ―Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "A Jedi without a lightsaber—"
- Ben: "Is a lot less dashing to the girls."
- Luke: "Not what I was going to say, but probably true."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker[src]
"Oh, but this is nothing like Dagobah, where mold rotted everything, duraplast included, and did it stink. Even my lightsaber blade stank. Food stank. Yoda stank. Distilled water stank, I'm not sure how."
―Ben Skywalker, impersonating his father
―Ben Skywalker, impersonating his father
- Ben: "My dad neglects and abuses me."
- Luke: "True, and when you become a father, you'll discover how much fun that is."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker on Nam Chorios[src]
- Ben: "We're cleared to dock on spar three, module eleven. They're requesting our trade manifest."
- Luke: "Transmit 'three occupants, combat and insurgency skills.'"
- Ben: "That's not even a lie."
- Luke: "Sometimes a Jedi must deal with the disappointment of having to tell the truth."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker, on approach to a space station disguised as a smuggling ship[src]
- "Great, Dad. Should I open the top hatch and hurl rocks at it?"
- ―Ben Skywalker, while being pursued in an unarmed shuttle by Ship
- Ben: "In the future, I suggest that we only ever fight guys who set up their lairs in posh hotel suites. With sunlight and buffets and sanisteams and dancers."
- Luke: "Son, if you could figure out how to make that a reality, I'd make you the head of the Jedi Order."
- Ben: [shuddering] "Pretend I never said that."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker[src]
- Luke: "We built junk racers more sophisticated than this out of spare parts when I was ten."
- Ben: "Back in the old days. Back during the Empire. Back when starships were made of wood. Back when there were no holodramas, just puppet shows. Back when a hypercomm system was a long string stretched between two planets with a durasteel caf cup at either end…"
- Luke: "You're not helping."
- ―Luke and Ben Skywalker, attempting to repair a shuttle[src]
- Vestara: "Ben, I can see why Ship was drawn to you. There's the making of a fine Sith in you, you know that?"
- Ben: "Let us not devolve into insults."
- ―Vestara Khai and Ben Skywalker, before Vestara throws a fruit at Ben[src]
- Ben: "You're nervous."
- Vestara: "No, I'm not."
- Ben: "Yeah, you are. I would be, too. You're about to meet a whole bunch of people who not long ago were your sworn enemies and say, Hi there, I used to be Sith but not anymore. It's okay because I'm dating the most amazing, best-looking, smartest Jedi in the—ow!"
- Vestara: "Don't get cocky."
- ―Ben Skywalker, teasing Vestara Khai[src]
- Ben: "Dad—you gave Coruscant to the Lost Tribe?"
- Luke: "I laid a trap. That's quite a bit different. The Lost Tribe believes it has a destiny to rule the galaxy. What better way to take a huge step toward fulfilling that destiny than to infiltrate Coruscant?"
- Ben: "Uh, Dad, you maybe forgot one little thing."
- Luke: "And that might be?"
- Ben: "Sith have infiltrated Coruscant!"
- ―Ben and Luke Skywalker discuss the finer points of Luke's plan to ensnare the Lost Tribe[src]
- Jaina: "I think I liked Korriban better."
- Ben: "Yeah. At least it was a dry heat."
- Vestara: "And it had puppies."
- ―Jaina Solo, Ben Skywalker, and Vestara Khai on Dromund Kaas, talking about Korriban and tuk'ata[src]
- Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend."
- Mara: "She's an insect, Ben."
- Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard."
- Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend."
- Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard."
- Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker, on the subject of best friends[src]
- STK-CLR: "Your universal stocking code is not evident. Please display it for proper shelf assignment."
- Ben: "I'm not a stock item."
- STK-CLR: "Of course you are." [grabs Ben by wrists and ankles] "You came through the freight system."
- Ben: "Not everything that comes through the freight system is a stock item." [gets lifted into the air] "Put me down! And that's an override command."
- STK-CLR: "Stock items are not authorized to issue override commands." [sprays barcode on Ben's robe] "You have been marked DEFECTIVE UNIT. Present yourself to the routing station on the far side of the delivery portal for return to your supplier."
- Ben: "Sure, whatever you want."
- STK-CLR: "Good. And relay my displeasure to your manufacturer. This is the Jedi Temple. We have acceptance specifications."
- ―Ben Skywalker, running into a STK-CLR stock-keeping droid while infiltrating the Sith-occupied Jedi Temple via the freight system[src]
- Woman: "You're holding up the line, stupid."
- Ben: "Sorry."
- Woman: "Sorry doesn't mean anything. If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place."
- Ben: "Sorry."
- Woman: "Now you're being insolent."
- Ben: "Sorry."
- Woman: "You're a very nasty little boy."
- Ben: "I take it back."
- Woman: "You take what back?"
- Ben: "My apology. I apologized, but you didn't accept it. You just used it as an excuse to keep being rude."
- ―Ben Skywalker, encountering an unpleasant woman on Almania[src]
- Ben: "Ninette, give me a collision analysis on those three asteroids. How much distance do we need to be safe?"
- Ninette: IF YOU WISHED TO BE SAFE, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE FLOWN US INTO A PLASMA CLOUD FILLED WITH ASTEROIDS.
- ―Ben Skywalker and Ninette[src]
- Luke: "How was lunch?"
- Ben: "Uh – fine. Why?"
- Luke: "Because it just might come back up again."
- ―Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, about to enter the Kathol Rift[src]
- Ben: "Is politics always like that? Why don't you both say what you mean?"
- Jacen: "Then it wouldn't be politics, would it?"
- Ben: "And why does everyone keep saying, 'Oh, I remember the Empire...'? Uncle Han says it was bad, and so does Chief Omas. If they're both afraid of the same thing, why are they on opposite sides?" [Jacen laughs] "I was only asking, Jacen."
- Jacen: "I'm not laughing at you. It's just very refreshing to hear someone cut through the nonsense and ask real questions."
- ―Ben Skywalker and Jacen Solo, after a meeting with Chief of State Cal Omas[src]
"Doing the right thing isn't something special. It's the minimum. It's where we start each morning, not where we try to end up one day in the future. You taught me that."
―Ben Skywalker, to Luke Skywalker
―Ben Skywalker, to Luke Skywalker
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