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“Creed looked back at them. His men, his brothers. He had no words, but took them all in with a steely glance, knelt, and pressed an open palm to the ground. His planet, his home soil. Cadia. It spoke to him. It shook like a weeping body. He could feel the vibrations of shells exploding, the dull rumble of the Volscani Leviathans as they pressed forward. The hateful press of the traitors’ landers on her soil. The bloody tramp of heretical feet. The spiked tracks of their armour.
Each shell that landed, each footstep on Cadian soil, was like his own body was being torn, plundered, violated.
‘We are Cadia,’ he said quietly. ‘Cadia is us.”
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Each shell that landed, each footstep on Cadian soil, was like his own body was being torn, plundered, violated.
‘We are Cadia,’ he said quietly. ‘Cadia is us.”
―
“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on my next favorite song. But I never stop playing my mixes. Every fan makes them. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.”
― Love is a Mix Tape
― Love is a Mix Tape
“Some thirteen-year-old with a sticker-covered guitar might right now be in a garage in Denton, Texas, or Peoria, Illinois, or Macon, Georgia, writing an album that could one day flip the world upside down.”
― Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore
― Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore
“And how can anyone say they are strong if they have never been tested? It’s easy to be strong when everything is going well. It’s when things go to hell that true character emerges.”
― The Swords of Calth
― The Swords of Calth
“A fight is about more than just technique and skill,’ said Yael. ‘It is about heart and courage. About a willingness to suffer pain, a realisation that even the greatest warrior can still be humbled by a twist of fate, a patch of loose ground, a mote of dust in the eye...’
‘I account for random factors in my calculations,’ said Dahan, still unwilling to concede that his combat subroutines could be in error. ‘My results are certain.’
‘Therein lies your error,’ said Kul Gilad. ‘There is no such thing as certainty in a fight. Even our greatest bladesman could be felled by a lesser opponent. To be a truly sublime warrior, a man must realise that defeat is always possible. Only when you recognise that can you truly fight with heart.”
― Forges of Mars Omnibus
‘I account for random factors in my calculations,’ said Dahan, still unwilling to concede that his combat subroutines could be in error. ‘My results are certain.’
‘Therein lies your error,’ said Kul Gilad. ‘There is no such thing as certainty in a fight. Even our greatest bladesman could be felled by a lesser opponent. To be a truly sublime warrior, a man must realise that defeat is always possible. Only when you recognise that can you truly fight with heart.”
― Forges of Mars Omnibus
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