Quotes from Dan Abnett

As a warrior, I am a man of conscience, and that conscience is directed by my faith in the Emperor.

A weapon doesn't question who it kills, or why. That isn't the point of weapons.

I have used up my days believing I serve the Throne above all, but this is the filth I am dragged into.' 'Me too,' I said. 'That's something I might have said of my own life. Nothing wears an honest face. Those we admire disappoint us, or betray us. What truth may be found is uglier and more cruel than our worst expectations.

Pherhaps we are cursed', Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves'.

What a profoundly bleak and inhospitable cosmos you inhabit, colonel-commissar. No wonder you fight so much.

I think someone's about to have a really bad chair day.

The grenade exploded. 'You see?' said Thonius. 'You see how thinking works?' But the dreadnought wasn't finished. The blast had split its belly plates, but it was still moving, still striding, still firing. Thonius shrugged. 'Okay... we're dead.

Jake's father, Doc Polson, had tended to hundreds of scraped knees and bumped heads. He'd set four broken arms and fixed dozens of sprained ankles before people got used to hopping on and off the moving wagons. He'd also salved a couple of dozen scalds and burns, he'd sat up with a child with croup for three nights, and he'd even delivered two babies, with the help of Aunt May, the midwife.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

All the way to hell. In a fancy paper hat.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous. --Ibram Gaunt

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.

Gamora: History repeating itself? Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

You are walking along the shores of a lake,' Sindermann said. 'A boy is drowning. Do you let him drown because he was foolish enough to fall into the water before he had learned to swim? Or do you fish him out, and teach him how to swim?' Loken shrugged. 'The latter.' 'What if he fights you off as you attempt to save him, because he is afraid of you? Because he doesn't want to learn how to swim?' 'I save him anyway.

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

Even a life of pain is not worth wasting.

The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time.

Loken took a step forward. 'Commander,' he said, 'I will own up to ignorance and embrace illumination, but I will not be laughed at.