By the Thirteen, it was true! If you wanted a bone gnawed properly you had to gnaw it yourself.
“If we could have our way, no man would have to go roving or draw blood. But women did not make the world. All of you are torturers, one way or another.”
― The Shadow of the Torturer
― The Shadow of the Torturer
“to be human is to be a slave to death by a thousand insignificant means.”
― Descent of Angels
― Descent of Angels
“in the face of that emptiness, man had chosen to invent new gods to replace the ones that had passed out of memory.”
― False Gods
― False Gods
“It bled half-formed emotions, like something undigested: hatred that was too unfocused to be pure, love without an object, obsession over nothing and gouts of oblivion without form.”
― Battle for the Abyss
― Battle for the Abyss
“This petty little empire. No wonder it fell so easily. Any culture founded upon a wine so tragic shouldn’t survive long.”
― Horus Rising
― Horus Rising
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