Dan Abnett famous quotes

03-28-2025

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.
-- Dan Abnett

#Broken #Pieces
In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.
-- Dan Abnett

#Doors #Heavy #Terror
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.
-- Dan Abnett

#Stars #Lying #Past
I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
-- Dan Abnett

#Moving #Fighting #People
That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.
-- Dan Abnett

#Hands #Half #Body
I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor
-- Dan Abnett

#Emperor #Horus
But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
-- Dan Abnett

#Limitless #Authority
Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.
-- Dan Abnett

#Breathe
If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.
-- Dan Abnett

#Knowing #Firsts #Speak
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
-- Dan Abnett

#Men #Soul #May

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