Quotes from David Annandale

And then the roar. That roar. The roar of the end of all hope.

Ghosts do not exist. Do not offend the Emperor by believing in such nonsense.

We all walk the assigned path.

How perfect were the dictates of fate!

I stand and I do not fall!" he shouted. "I stand and I do not fall!

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

There are no answers. There is only obedience.

Nothing is indestructible. Anyone who believes otherwise is already halfway to being defeated.

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

The ramparts were infinite. So was his will.

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

The shrine before her gave her a way to concentrate her thoughts, and powerful as symbols were, it was still just a symbol. Monuments and rituals served their purpose, but they fell away to insignificance before the essence of faith itself. That was what she offered the God-Emperor now.