Star Wars: The Force Awakens Fate vs. Free Will Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.

Quote #4

BALA-TIK: Inform the First Order that Han Solo has the droid they want. And it's aboard the Millennium Falcon.

And just when free will seems to have won the argument, destiny throws down with a big fistful of Right Place, Right Time. One of Star Wars'secret weapons is that it can conveniently throw characters together simply because the Force wills it…and arranged for Rey's escape vehicle to just happen to belong to a crusty, old smuggler.

Quote #5

REY: You're offering me a job.

HAN: I'm thinking about it. Well?

REY: If you were, I'd be flattered. But I have to get home.

HAN: Jakku?

REY: I've already been away too long.

Rey is so attached to Jakku that she's willing to turn down a much more exciting position on the Falconjust to get back. Choices always have consequences, and Rey thinks she's making a sacrifice by choosing to stay behind.

Quote #6

FINN: I'm not Resistance. I'm not a hero. I'm a stormtrooper. Like all of them, I was taken from a family I'll never know. And raised to do one thing. But my first battle, I made a choice. I wasn't going to kill for them. So I ran. Right into you. And you looked at me like no one ever had. I was ashamed of what I was. But I'm done with the First Order. I'm never going back.

Here's Finn's problem: having made the choice to run, he thinks he has to keep running in order to stay safe. It doesn't work that way…and choosing to keep running rather than staying with his friends is still apt to bite him on the rear.