Patrick VanDusen

“readers wanting more detail are referred to Broedenour’s thirty-seven volume work Waaaagh! and Peace: The Siege of Perlia and its Neighbouring Systems. (Had the author of this magisterial work not been tragically killed by a toppling library stack before its completion it would undoubtedly be regarded as the definitive work on the subject. As it is, it remains an unsurpassed work of reference for anyone interested in the minutiae of the first nine weeks of the two-year campaign.)”
― Sandy Mitchell, Defender of the Imperium

“Never give the enemy anything, Ana. They take what they take and that’s more than enough as it is.”
― Dan Abnett, The Saint

“Well, I am five saken,’ he said. ‘Five?’ ‘It is one more than four saken,’ he replied. ‘It is a level of grief behind which there is no furthestmost.’ ‘Except six?’ ‘Pray no one ever experiences six saken,’ Unwerth said.”
― Dan Abnett, Ravenor: The Omnibus

“Colonel Kasteen called the meeting to order. Then she called it to order again. Major Broklaw fired his bolt pistol into the ceiling, and the meeting came to order.”
― Sandy Mitchell, Hero of the Imperium