"That's probably why he started. The Dark Side is tempting. You think things like, 'I can use the Dark Side for power, power to help people, power to save people. I can use the Dark Side and still be a good person.' But for him, it wasn't the case." He wondered sometimes if his mother knew the full extend of Skywalker's crimes before she named Anakin after him. If Uncle Luke knew what he'd done when he tried to redeem him. Anakin doubted very much if he'd have done anything other than destroy him, or die trying.
"My grandfather was in love with my grandmother. And he had seen visions of her death. The Jedi taught him that there was nothing he could do, and Palpatine told him that there was. I imagine the Dark Side hurt him, at first, but he told himself that he had to. Then he stopped hurting. Then he stopped feeling."