Quotes from Gav Thorpe

There is a very simple reason why Lion El'Jonson did not take part in the final battles of the Horus Heresy. It is beautifully simple, when you consider it. He was waiting.' 'Waiting for what?' Boreas asked quietly. 'He was waiting to see which side won, of course.

To know is to be tempted.

Una orden es un acto de agresión; un deseo es un acto de sumisión

La paz en sí, inmutable y eterna, es una constante en la vida. La ira fugaz, es un lapso momentáneo, cuando uno pierde la voluntad.

When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source.

Presence of mind in all things, I counsel. Be aware of thyself before all else.

As I said, be careful from whom one gains knowledge and be aware of the price of its acquisition.

I'll be dead, I'll not care either way. What matters is how I die.' 'And how will that be?' 'Fighting for freedom and the lives of my companions, bana-madam.

Trust is a commodity that comes and goes, my dearest friend. Faith is eternal.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

I did something that should not have been done and, by direct consequence of that decision, I sit here now and my world is destroyed, my oaths broken with my legacy one of misery and treachery.

It was a precautionary measure, unlikely to be used, but the designers of the pistol perhaps had lived in more turbulent times, when even the craftworlds had raised their weapons against each other.

The test is in leaving the castle,' said the Supreme Grand Master. 'To give up all that came before and begin again with nothing.

The powers that seek to corral and corrupt us ask a simple question – what do you want?' said the former Grand Master. 'It may be complicated or simple, but we each have a desire within us that can be exploited. All of us. Even you.

Glory is an empty plate to feed from.

It's one of the most stable ignition elements for plasma weapons, for a start. They say a plasma gun made with Kragmeer ansidium has only a forty-five per cent malfunction rate.

We each are only guests in the lives of others." Sar Luther