154 Quotes About The-black-library

A rush into the jaws of death, snatched free, to plunge therein again at will,’ he said. ‘I greet death with a smile on my face.

We all walk the assigned path.

Skill and determination can lead a hunter only so far. After that it becomes a test of faith.

The shrine before her gave her a way to concentrate her thoughts, and powerful as symbols were, it was still just a symbol. Monuments and rituals served their purpose, but they fell away to insignificance before the essence of faith itself. That was what she offered the God-Emperor now.

The Emperor protected, they had always been told. He aldo demanded, so it felt like. He extracted. He laid the burdens heavily upon His subjects, never letting them rest, always asking for more.

That’s a common failing of women, isn’t it, probator? A man doesn’t try to change a woman – he accepts her or he rejects her. A woman thinks she can reform a man, and that’s why she gets hurt, because you can’t change some things. You must trust in the Emperor’s Grace, or in nothing.

The more she saw of the galaxy the more she'd come to understand that sometimes the commission of a smaller sin was the unavoidable price of extirpating a much greater one.

Evil was amongst us, defying the Emperor’s rule of order. And I served the Emperor. I always have. I always will. It is my oath. It is the thunder and the lightning.

How much we take the Omnissiah’s gifts for granted, he thought ruefully, until we no longer have them.