The Best Luthen Rael Quotes

Kleya: [Kleya and Luthen are speaking over radio] Where are you?
Luthen: He wanted to reopen the offer.
Kleya: And did you close the sale?
Luthen: I did. It was more expensive than I hoped, but I wasn't in a position to bargain.
Kleya: So you're coming home?
Luthen: Depends. I'm most curious about the other piece.
Kleya: You should come home.
Luthen: Is it no longer available?
Kleya: No, it's very much on the table. The negotiations are ongoing, and our representatives are involved, but there's a number of other buyers on the ground and your presence would complicate the bidding at this point.
Luthen: We need that piece. We lose that and we'll have to close shop.
Kleya: There's nothing more you can do.
Luthen: That's never true.
Kleya: It's a crowded market.
Luthen: You need to think of the consequences of losing that piece to another collector.
Kleya: I'm preparing for every outcome.
Luthen: There's only...
[Communicator buzzing]
Kleya: Luthen? Luthen?

Cassian: Look, you got the money. I got the box. What else is there to talk about?
Luthen: I'll give you another thousand credits to tell me how you got it.
Cassian: [Chuckles] Another thousand?
Luthen: Done. How?
Cassian: You just walk in like you belong.
Luthen: Takes more than that, doesn't it?
Cassian: What? To steal from the Empire? What do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands and an Imperial tool kit. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.
Luthen: Can't imagine what?
Cassian: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.
Luthen: The arrogance is remarkable, isn't it? They don't even think about us.
Cassian: Us? I don't know you.
Luthen: Fair enough, but I know you. These days will end, Cassian Andor. The way they laugh. The way they push through a crowd. The sound of that voice telling you to stop, to go, to move. Telling you to die. Rings in the ear, doesn't it?
Cassian: Why don't you let me count that money?
Luthen: But they'll think about us soon enough.
Cassian: We should get moving.
Luthen: Soon enough, they'll have something else to listen to.
Cassian: You don't want to get caught with it!
Luthen: Oh, they'd hang me, would they? Take me up Rix Road and hang me in the square. Wouldn't be the first time, would it? Isn't that where they hung your father?
Cassian: [Draws and cocks weapon and points it] Who are you! What is this?
Luthen: [Cassian walks toward Luthen with his gun aimed] I said I know you. I know all about you. And yes, I want the box, and I'll leave with that if it's all I can get. I came looking for something more and I think I found it. I'd like you to come with me.
Cassian: [Cassian walks closer and points his gun in front of Luthen's head] How do you know about me?
Luthen: I was hoping for a more relaxed conversation but you're right, we don't have time. Contrary to what you told me, I doubt that you'll be sticking around. I know you killed two Corpos at Morlana-One, and I know they're coming for you. Seems like such a waste to let them have you. A waste of talent.
Cassian: [Cassian pushes gun between Luthen's eyes and whispers] Who are you?
Luthen: That's the wrong question. The right question is how much time do we have to get out of here.
Cassian: Why would I go anywhere with you?
Luthen: Don't you want to fight these bastards for real?

Supervisor: My sacrifice? It means nothing to you, does it?
Luthen: I said I think of you constantly and I do. Your investment in the Rebellion is epic. A double life? Every day a performance? The stress of that? We need heroes, Lonni, and here you are.
Supervisor: And what do you sacrifice?
Luthen: Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!

Luthen: Calm Kindness, Kinship, Love.
Luthen: I've given up all chance of inner peace.
Luthen: I've made my mind a sunless place.
Luthen: I share my dreams with ghosts.
Luthen: I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there is only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do.
Luthen: My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
Luthen: I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
Luthen: What, What is my sacrifice?
Luthen: I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
Luthen: I burn my decency for someone else's future.
Luthen: I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.
Luthen: And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.
Luthen: So what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!
Luthen: You'll stay with me, Lonni.
Luthen: I need all the heroes I can get.

Luthen: It don't matter what you tell me or yourself. You'll ultimately die fighting these bastards. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once, to something real?

Saw: Thirty men.
Luthen: Plus Kreeygr.
Saw: For the greater good.
Luthen: Call it what you will.
Saw: Let's call it... war.