Gav Thorpe > Quotes

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, Angels of Darkness

“For the first and the last time in his life, Corax cried. He cried not for the loss of life, though it was great.
He cried not for the degradation that has been heaped upon his dead warrior, though it was obscene.
He cried for all Astartes, for the shame that Horus has brought upon them. They had been the Emperor's trusted sword, and they had betrayed him. It mattered not that Corax himself had remained loyal, he was Astartes and the shame of one was the shame of all.
'Will they ever trust us again?'
A tear rolled down his cheek and dropped onto the fallen Raven Guard. Should they trust us, was the next question.”
― Gav Thorpe, Raven's Flight

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

Sar Luther”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Una orden es un acto de agresión; un deseo es un acto de sumisión”
― Gav Thorpe, Path of the Warrior

“Presence of mind in all things, I counsel. Be aware of thyself before all else.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“To know is to be tempted.”
― Gav Thorpe, The First Wall

“Monsters to kill monsters,’ whispered Branne. ‘Is this what we’ve become?’
Corax did not share his thoughts as he watched the first of the squads descending into the complex, bestial and deformed...Perhaps, he thought, this was what we have always been.”
― Gav Thorpe, Ravenlord

“As I said, be careful from whom one gains knowledge and be aware of the price of its acquisition.”
― gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, Path of the Warrior

“When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source.”
― Gav Thorpe, The First Wall

“So it is with nephilla and their masters, especially the Architect of Fate. The balance of power is never certain and lies are so easily cloaked in the lightest truth. From that first encounter to the last on the eve of Caliban’s death, I thought I was in control and forged a path for Caliban and the Order. In truth, I was waylaid long ago by a false map and led like a fool into the most treacherous depths, from which I never freed myself.
It is always the way when dealing with the powers of the warp. Your first steps always seem to be in the right direction, but you will never know at what point you started following their road, because after a time you forget there was a destination at all, and all that remains is the journey.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Trust is a commodity that comes and goes, my dearest friend. Faith is eternal.”
― Gav Thorpe, The First Wall

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“But I serve the Emperor himself and I learned first-hand that honor is the foe of necessity. - Merir Astelan”
― Gav Thorpe, Angels of Caliban

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, Path of the Eldar

“me”
― Gav Thorpe, The Sundering

“Even the straightest-looking road can sometimes lead you astray, and most that are worth following are far from straight. Even at the journey’s end it is easy to look back upon all the winding turns, hills and dips, and see an inevitable line from the start point to the present. We become blind to all of the junctions, forks and opportunities to leave the road altogether. Thus we remove ourselves from the blame of becoming lost because we set out with good intentions. On Caliban we had a saying about good intentions: You cannot steer the arrow once it leaves the bow.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“The man who has the will to undergo all labor
may win to any good. - Merir Astelan”
― Gav Thorpe, Angels of Caliban

“To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Insult me again, brother, and theoretically I will punch you in your practical face,’ snapped the Lion, raising a fist.”
― Gav Thorpe, Angels of Caliban

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Glory is an empty plate to feed from.”
― Gav Thorpe, The First Wall

“The test is in leaving the castle,’ said the Supreme Grand Master. ‘To give up all that came before and begin again with nothing.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Myths, like gods, should be treated with some scepticism also. They have a habit of being retold to the benefit of the teller. You would not doubt the advice of this reliable narrator would you?”
― Gav Thorpe, Ghost Warrior

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, 13th Legion

“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.”
― Gav Thorpe, The First Wall

“Loneliness is an indulgence for those with the time to spare for it.”
― Gav Thorpe