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21 " Now you see,’ said Yesugei. ‘We are made to be greater than the humanity we serve. The weight of the blade is nothing to us. To ride and fight and bleed for days is nothing to us. Nothing to us… We are made higher and so we lose that part that a child and an old man and a father looking into his child’s eyes knows – that the next step is not a promise. That to live is to fight. We forget that. We forget that life is weakness in the face of eternity. To take the next step only matters if you must fight for it, for the last fraction of ourselves. And taking it you see yourself, true and clear – not a warrior, not a hero, not a story of glory and wonder… Just a lightning flash, a descent from Heaven to Earth, a step taken, bright and fleeting and then gone. "
― John French , Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)
22 " Power is a game, a great game without dimension or limit. When the plague winds wax, the fire of war comes and burns the festering corpses from the fields. When excess reaches perfection, wild chance comes to spoil it. On and on in an endless dance. "
― John French , Slaves to Darkness (The Horus Heresy #51)
23 " We are future memories. When our flesh is dust and our dreams faded we will be ghosts living in a land of legends, made real only by the memories of others. What we take with us into that realm of the dead, what we are remembered for, that will be the truth of our lives.’– Solomon Voss, from The Edge of Illumination "
― John French , The Crimson Fist (The Horus Heresy #Novella)
24 " Here in the realm beyond sight, there is nothing that is not brought by those that come here. Once, long ago, but aldo a moment past and in a moment to come, this realm was void, without even the idea of dimensions or duration so that it could be called empty. Long ago... Long, long ago... Now it is the place filled with the refuse of its travellers: the husks of grand ambitions and dreams, the shadows of atrocity, and the secrets of the countless dead and the yet to be born. It is both a lie and the truest thing to ever be. "
25 " The first wall of any fortress was the mind, and doubt could burn it from within before the enemy had even raised a blade. "
― John French , The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)
26 " Victory is not fate. It is an act of will.'Primarch Rogal Dorn "
27 " There is no virtue to knowledge, no comfort in knowing. There is no greater curse that can be bestowed than insight and no higher blessing than to be oblivious. If you look for comfort in this age, seek ignorance; shun thought, close your mind and break its key. "
― John French
28 " Poetry begins with the talking,’ Yesugei had said. ‘And talking is the shadow of the spirit within. "
29 " Run... Run, father, and know that I'm coming. Run!"- Warmaster Horus "
30 " Claims of innocence mean nothing: they serve only to prove a foolish lack of caution.’– Judge Traggat, Selected Sayings, Vol. III, Chapter IV "
― John French , Divination (The Horusian Wars)
31 " Can I change the future, or do I make it certain by trying? "
― John French , The Lies of Solace (Lord of Nightmares #2)
32 " Hindsight makes us all seem fools. "
― John French , Hounds of Wrath
33 " Why comes the stranger to the door at night? Why, because he is no stranger."- Malcador Sigillite "
34 " Are there limits to what is divine? "
35 " That is the trouble with power. The more of it you have, the more using it becomes everything."- Warmaster Horus "
36 " What is life but not being able to do anything without it being at someone else's bidding? "
― John French , The Absolution of Swords (The Horusian Wars)
37 " Do not pity those who are lost on the path. Pity those who reach its end, and see at last what they were seeking "
― John French , Ahriman: The Omnibus (Ahriman #1-3)
38 " You should never let someone else bear a burden you are afraid of, Lorgar. It has a habit of creating resentment.'- Primarch Fulgrim "
39 " The soul is a tower that must stand against the might of the seas of fate and the storms of impiety. "
40 " Not all that we can give can be held in the hand. "
― John French , A Coin for the Carrion Thieves (Black Library Advent Calendar 2020 #7)