Ahriman Quotes

“Show me a living soul that believes that he has choice in anything, and I will show you the universe’s greatest fool.”
― John French, Ahriman: Unchanged

“He opened his eyes to the real world. Everything was moving with the slowness of a broken pict screen. Around him the Exiles of the Thousand Sons stood in the ruins of Tizca. Above him lights swelled within the storm cloud as the shells fell from the heavens.
He reached up to his chest. The cracked back of a jade scarab found his fingers. His mind was suddenly empty, suddenly still. He felt the stone of the jade scarab. It was warm to his touch, just as it had been before, when Prospero had died under the axes of the Wolves. He knew that perhaps he alone of his brothers had kept that broken memento of their first flight from Prospero. Then it had unified the Legion, as Magnus had given the last of his power to save those who survived.
Now, Ahriman did not need it to draw his brothers together. They were him and he was them. But the scarab mattered. It was not a connection to his brothers. It was a connection to the past, a connection to that first journey across space and time, a connection to the bridge that Magnus had created between Prospero and their refuge in the Eye. A key to opening that way again.
You cannot step in the same river twice, he thought, the ancient words rising unbidden to his mind. Above him tears of flame fell from the frozen sky.
For it is not the same river.
He gripped the scarab and closed his eyes.
And you are not the same man.”
― John French, Ahriman: Unchanged

“Not all that we can give can be held in the hand.”
― John French, A Coin for the Carrion Thieves

“What happened to you?’
The oracle’s laugh crinkled across Ahriman’s thoughts. He felt the weight of years that had passed as millennia, the millennia that had been lived as aeons.
+Time, my brother. Choices. Time and choices change all things. As you well know.+”
― John French, Ahriman: Exile

“To leave is to arrive.
To arrive is to leave.”
― John French, Ahriman: The Dead Oracle

“Memory was built on more than images or words, it was a web of sensations linked to a point in time. Remember the smell of a place and you would see it. Remember the exact shade of a flower's petals and you would recall the name of its species. ~ Ahzek Ahriman, Ahriman: Exile”
― John French

“Is it not possible that those who invented the devil may have studied divinity in Persia, where the creed obtains that powers of light and darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman, strive perpetually for mastery of the world Surely, otherwise, they would have remembered that if the devil exists, God must have created him, which in itself is blasphemy, for God can create no evil.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Bellarion