Black Library Quotes

“Faith in my blade arm, certainly.”
― Denny Flowers, Inferno! Volume 4

“Praise be unto the God-Emperor. From the jaws of defeat, He brings victory. From the driest desert, He shall call forth the purest springs.”
― Marc Collins, Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne

“You can’t just run away when things aren’t going well. The Emperor has His plan for all of us. By denying it, you are at the risk of heresy, and we’ll all be held accountable.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“What is memory but the fashioning of a deep and personal fiction? In memory, we shape the world around ourselves, as if to prove our own existence, to demonstrate the mark we have left upon the universe. We become heralds of something better; the guiding light by which we believe all others might navigate. This, then, is the comfort we award ourselves for the act of living, for to comprehend the truth – that the universe is cold and ambivalent at best, and at worst despises our very existence – is to contemplate madness. So it is that we grow to love the lie.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“The days of mankind are nearly done. For years I have been seeing it. All we can do while we are here is live. All any human ever has been able to do is live. That is all I tried to do.”
― Guy Haley, A Witch's Fate

“When inquisitors fall, in my experience, they do so very hard indeed.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“I cannot allow my own convictions to get in the way of truth, for only in knowing the truth can victory be secured.”
― Guy Haley

“ Your pride is oh so very great, and your fall will be oh so very far… ”
― Danie Ware, The Book of Change

“It was always that way with cruelty, Sigismund knew — it did not have to sacrifice, or struggle; it had only to be patient.”
― John French, Sigismund: The Eternal Crusader

“Rostov got onto his knees, wrapped his rosary around his sticky fingers, kissed the small golden figure sat upon its throne, closed his eyes, and began to pray.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“A single, simple longing was enough to damn him.”
― Guy Haley, Darkness in the Blood

“You don’t need to hear to listen to the truth.”
― John French, Black Oculus

“My last mission ended with me drifting for a hundred years in a warp storm.’
‘Well, we all have our moments.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“To face one’s past is to face one’s future.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“She had no idea what came next. And for once, the idea was pleasing.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“Age is a matter of perspective.”
― Guy Haley, Godblight

“ They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery./b> ”
― Guy Haley, Godblight

“He charged headlong into dangerous territory. He should have stopped, but anger propelled him.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“He was posturing. So much posturing. Humans never tired of it.”
― David Annandale, The Oath in Darkness

“The things I have seen and done…”
― Guy Haley, Godblight

“He lived in an era when mankind’s gifts were bent to unspeakable aims.”
― Guy Haley

“Perhaps in the end, my son, it is an unfinished work that is the most beautiful of all.”
― Ian St. Martin

“The deed is not all that matters. The reason is what matters.”
― John French, Sigismund: The Eternal Crusader

“‘You shall be a Templar, of that there is no question…’ Appius paused, and Sigismund felt that for once the weapon master was not certain what to say next. ‘Of that there is no question. The question is, what more you will be.’”
― John French, Champion of Oaths

“But what is devotion, eh? Taking what is offered with both hands. That’s devotion.”
― Chris Wraight

“Historians toil at the past, but they write for the future. That's the point of them. If I know there are historians still at work, it tells me there will be a future. I think that might strengthen my resolve. The idea of a future, a far future, that will exist and want to remember. It would fortify my purpose and offer me hope. If the historians give up, then we're admitting an end is coming. Go do the work the emperor once gave you and remind me that some future is still a possibility for us.”
― Dan Abnett

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

“Such a little thing,’ he said aloud, mesmerised by what he held. ‘Such a little thing, for so much trouble.”
― Chris Wraight

“Nothing is safe. Nothing valuable ever is.”
― Chris Wraight

“You had two journeys. One is nearly over. One is just beginning. How that second journey works out is up to you.”
― Chris Wraight