154 Quotes About The-black-library

Our interests intersect more than they diverge.

Shall we side with those who scorn us, or choose our own path, to protect the innocent from those who would exploit and corrupt them?

When you are strong, appear weak".The first warmaster

The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tiniest action might be said to have been the origin of any great event.

I have taken power where once I had none,’ she said proudly. ‘I walk unmasked where they cannot, endure what they cannot. I do so in finery when they knew me in rags. All that I am I have taken for myself, through blood and sacrifice. I was born into stagnation and became change.

All is deceit. Nothing wears a true face or uses a true name. Nothing is as it appears to be, as if the whole universe were busily playing out a function, ‘guised in cunning. The mad are sane, the blind can see, the sane are otherwise demented, good is evil, and up, for all I care, is down.

Sometimes the threat is so grave, the worst of enemies must become the best of friends.

I have used up my days believing I serve the Throne above all, but this is the filth I am dragged into.’ ‘Me too,’ I said. ‘That’s something I might have said of my own life. Nothing wears an honest face. Those we admire disappoint us, or betray us. What truth may be found is uglier and more cruel than our worst expectations.

Oh, small light that is this soul, shine in the dark undimmed…Oh, great light that is all, shine for this soul so small…Oh, small light that is hope, shine for all that will see…Oh, small light that is this soul, shine in the dark undimmed…Oh… small… light…