Nick Kyme > Quotes

“About the universe,’ smiled Yesugei. ‘Have I never told you of it? The principle of the minor flaw.’ Tamu shook his head. ‘A foolish thing,’ said Yesugei. ‘I found myself believing that every soul should possess a flaw. Some exhibit it early and survive. Others do not, and it grows, and when it emerges it has become monstrous. The greater the soul, the greater the monster. So it is better to have had your brush with destruction now.”
― Nick Kyme, The Horus Heresy: Volume Six

“Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.”
― Nick Kyme, Fall of Damnos

“Custodes were far more solitary beings: sentinels, watchmen, destined to stand forever, alone.”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“What are any of us running from but our fate.”
― Nick Kyme

“All men have flaws, it's what makes them men. The ability to see and mitigate one's own flaws is a measure of a man's greatness.”
― Nick Kyme, Imperfect

“Revelation snapped his fingers. ‘That’s exactly my point. You pick and choose which bits of your book to take literally and which to read as symbolic, and that choosing is a matter of personal decision, not divinity. Trust me, in ages past, a frightening number of people took their holy books absolutely literally, causing untold misery and death because they truly believed the words they read. The history of religion is a horror story, Uriah, and if you doubt it, just look at what humanity has done in the name of their gods over the millennia.”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“Empires are built with broken bones and rivers of blood.”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“You think that the way you perceive the world is the way it actually is, but you cannot perceive the external world directly, none of us can. Instead, we know only our ideas or interpretations of objects in the world. The human brain is a marvellously evolved organ, my friend, and it is especially good at constructing images of faces and voices from limited information.”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“Evil was amongst us, defying the Emperor’s rule of order. And I served the Emperor. I always have. I always will. It is my oath. It is the thunder and the lightning.”
― Nick Kyme, Dreams of Unity

“My sin was arrogance, hidden by success, driven by ambition.”
― Nick Kyme

“I have yet to meet a servant of Whitehall that did not have a serpent's smile. Men with power have much to lose, and will do much to hold on to it should be threatened.”
― Nick Kyme, The Legacy of Deeds

“Millennia of endless warfare can be prevented!”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“You ride, Vebla. Ride to live. When you can live, then you can choose how to die.”
― Nick Kyme, Empire At War

“Curze leaned in, as if eager to hear my words. He believed that he had me, that I would never escape this trap. He was wrong.

"What's that, brother?"
"It's also a hammer".”
― Nick Kyme, Vulkan Lives

“Guilt shall be his shackles, remorse his cell.”
― Nick Kyme, The Legacy of Deeds

“Knowledge is power, and there is nothing the powerful fear more than knowledge,”
― Nick Kyme, Sepulturum

“With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.”
― Nick Kyme, Feat of Iron

“What we do defines us. Our deeds are like shadows and depending on whether we run into or from the sun, they either lie behind us or before us. - Vulkan”
― Nick Kyme, Vulkan Lives (The Horus Heresy) by Nick Kyme (22-May-2014) Paperback

“Cristo buckled, dropping to his knees as he wept. Another senseless death, when he had survived to suffer on.”
― Nick Kyme, Sepulturum

“I have erred, and so I must atone.
I lived when I should have died, and so I must become Immortal."
– Oath of the Immortals”
― Nick Kyme, Immortal Duty

“invincibility that only drunks and fools know.”
― Nick Kyme, Tales of Heresy

“We were more than human, greater than Space Marines, but while our assets were magnified, so too were our flaws. It didn’t matter at first, not while the Crusade roared on brightly, a comet bringing light to the benighted heavens. Rivalry soon became jealousy, envy; confidence grew into arrogance; wrath turned into homicidal mania. All of us were flawed, because to be human, even enhanced as we were, is to be flawed. A perfect state cannot be rendered from an imperfect design.”
― Nick Kyme, Vulkan Lives