"I'm a fighter.I've always been a fighter.The few times I have been a leisure,Ive been miserable.I want challenges,I crave them."
-Mara Jade Skywalker
"Yeah,its true.Now tell me who blabbed so I can cut his head off."
-Mara's response to a couple of Jedi trainees questioning her past as an Emperors hand.
"She is,shall we say,an experiment."
-Palpatine
"I hope your salary is more generous than your costume,Miss uh..."
"You uh... can call me Arica."
-C-3PO and Mara
"If only for that you deserve to die."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"For I have foreseen that Mara Jade will bow before me.One Mara Jade,or another."
-Joruus C'baoth to Mara Jade on Wayland
"You didn't know,but after that pirate base thing,Faughn told me you and I made a good team.She was right.We really did."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"Stupid stupid.A big fat diversion-the oldest trick on the list.and I fell for it like some dumb farm kid."
"Watch your language."
-Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker
"Mara...will you marry me?"
-Luke Skywalker to Mara Jade
"Doesn't look promising,does it?"
-Mara during the search for Outbound Flight
"As long as I'm fighting,I'm not dying.And I'm not done fighting just yet."
-Mara Jade Skywalker
"Darling,I love you,you are my life and my light.If you ever do this to me again I will rape you where you stand."
-Mara jesting with Luke about pregnancy.
"Luke I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you,if something goes wrong,this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die."
"I'll trust you to improve the story.Luke Skywalker goes out in a blaze of glory in battle on a red devourer."
-Mara and Luke on occupied Coruscant
"You promised me on Zonama Sekot that both of us have a lot more living to do."
"You think I'd drop you into the midst of all this to make you a widow-or me a widower?"
"That's not your style."
Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker on Coruscant
"I get the proverbial bad feeling about this."
-Mara, to Luke
"You're... as vile as he was."
"Who?"
"Palpatine."
-Mara Jade Skywalker and Jacen Solo
"We don't have a lock for he window but there's an alarm on it.You try going out ,and it'll be a toss up as to whether the vornskrs get to you before I do.But don't take my word for it.Try it and find out."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"She fit the story,she fit the Starwars universe, and she was fun to write."
-Timothy Zahn, on Mara Jade
-Mara Jade Skywalker
"Yeah,its true.Now tell me who blabbed so I can cut his head off."
-Mara's response to a couple of Jedi trainees questioning her past as an Emperors hand.
"She is,shall we say,an experiment."
-Palpatine
"I hope your salary is more generous than your costume,Miss uh..."
"You uh... can call me Arica."
-C-3PO and Mara
"If only for that you deserve to die."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"For I have foreseen that Mara Jade will bow before me.One Mara Jade,or another."
-Joruus C'baoth to Mara Jade on Wayland
"You didn't know,but after that pirate base thing,Faughn told me you and I made a good team.She was right.We really did."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"Stupid stupid.A big fat diversion-the oldest trick on the list.and I fell for it like some dumb farm kid."
"Watch your language."
-Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker
"Mara...will you marry me?"
-Luke Skywalker to Mara Jade
"Doesn't look promising,does it?"
-Mara during the search for Outbound Flight
"As long as I'm fighting,I'm not dying.And I'm not done fighting just yet."
-Mara Jade Skywalker
"Darling,I love you,you are my life and my light.If you ever do this to me again I will rape you where you stand."
-Mara jesting with Luke about pregnancy.
"Luke I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you,if something goes wrong,this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die."
"I'll trust you to improve the story.Luke Skywalker goes out in a blaze of glory in battle on a red devourer."
-Mara and Luke on occupied Coruscant
"You promised me on Zonama Sekot that both of us have a lot more living to do."
"You think I'd drop you into the midst of all this to make you a widow-or me a widower?"
"That's not your style."
Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker on Coruscant
"I get the proverbial bad feeling about this."
-Mara, to Luke
"You're... as vile as he was."
"Who?"
"Palpatine."
-Mara Jade Skywalker and Jacen Solo
"We don't have a lock for he window but there's an alarm on it.You try going out ,and it'll be a toss up as to whether the vornskrs get to you before I do.But don't take my word for it.Try it and find out."
-Mara Jade, to Luke Skywalker
"She fit the story,she fit the Starwars universe, and she was fun to write."
-Timothy Zahn, on Mara Jade