“Leave him, Anakin. There is no time. This whole spire may be about to break free-“
“Then we’ll be adrift together.”
Anakin glanced up at the Supreme Chancellor and for that instant, he didn’t like the man at all […]
“His fate,” he said, in case Palpatine had not understood, “will be the same as ours.”
~ Revenge of the Sith Novelization by Matthew Stover
(Source: nothings-changed, via starwarsfreak)