"To dissect a thing is not to understand a thing. ... In order to investigate things scientifically, we break them into parts. Yet some things cannot be understood in their parts but only in their totality."

"As the Shadows promote war and chaos, they created the tech to do the same, to create an army of warriors, agents of chaos who would bring death and destruction wherever they went."

"Wierden established the Circle and the Code to curb our destructive impulses. That is why such stress is placed on them, why the penalties for violation are so sever."

"... in saving another at the risk of his own life, he had brought a flicker of light to that place where darkness had consumed nearly everything."

"They had found, at last, that the principles by which they lived were more important than their own survival."

"Though much of their history had been consumed with anarchy, they had gradually imposed order upon themselves, and they had created fleeting moments of great beauty. Ultimately, these instruments of the enemy had chose extinction over chaos. They understood, better than any Vorlon, the truth at the core of all Vorlon teachings: that some must be sacrificed so that all could be saved." ( )

I don't usually read books that are spin-offs of movies or TV series, but this trilogy really stands on its own feet. ( )