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“Three floors.'

'What?' Glave snapped.

'No legs. It had no legs, but it crawled up three floors trying to kill us.'

Glave thought about that, then swept the beam of his meltagun across the rockcrete stairs, eating away at the grey stone and metal supports beneath.

'Well the next one will have to jump for us.”
― Robert Rath, The Fall of Cadia

“Shoulder to shoulder they stood in a circle of woe, and woe was all their assailants found to greet them.”
― Tim Willocks, The Religion

“What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved so much by the time his belly exploded that even this undignified end was soon forgotten by all but the most diligent annalists.

...

You and I, continued the king, have achieved nothing yet. Nothing...You may die here in Normandy, like our ancestor. But unlike our ancestor, should your dead belly burst and release poisonous miasmas that sicken all who smell them, then that, my son, will be the story of you.”
― Dan Jones, Essex Dogs

“BEFORE HE BURNS his bridges, a man should learn to swim.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned