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1 " You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe.God was real, and he hated us. "
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , The First Heretic (The Horus Heresy #14)
2 " Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn.""That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie. "
3 " Xaphen swore an oath never to fail his primarch.Argal Tal did not. He spoke in a voice soft enough to break hearts, "We are heretics, father. "
4 " And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold. "
5 " I have crusaded across his empire for over a century, raising icons and faiths in his image – and only now he objects? After a hundred years, only now am I told that all I’ve done is wrong? "
6 " Is that not blasphemy? Defying the will of the Covenant?’‘No,’ said the captain. ‘It was a tactical retreat in the face of overwhelming boredom. "
7 " We called them false angels. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us. "
