Ben Counter > Quotes

“We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy — the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial — carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won." ~Justicar Alaric”
― Ben Counter

“Order the guns to fire,’ said Horus, his voice cold. ‘Let the galaxy burn!”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“but Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“Ancient Rylanor strode to the edge of the roof, overlooking the scenes of horror below, the viral carnage seething between the buildings. Rylanor’s Dreadnought body was sealed against the world outside, sealed far more effectively than any Astartes armour, and the deathly wind swirled harmlessly around him as he watched the city’s death unfold.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.

That is insanity.

Wrong, it's being human.”
― Ben Counter, Hammer of Daemons

“Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal.”
― Ben Counter

“where the flames burned through, the endless churning mass of the warp at the heart of everything and the eyes of dark forces seething with malevolence. Grotesque creatures cavorted obscenely among heaps of corpses, horned heads and braying, goat-like faces twisted by the mindless artifice of the warp. Bloated monsters, their bodies heaving with maggots and filth, devoured dead stars as a brass-clad giant bellowed an endless war cry from its throne of skulls and soulless magicians sacrificed billions in a silver city built of lies.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“Faith is not a flag of allegiance or a theory for debate; it is something deep within us, complete and inevitable.”
― Ben Counter

“Winning is survival, Loken. You die, you lose, and nothing you ever believed ever meant anything.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames

“It bled half-formed emotions, like something undigested: hatred that was too unfocused to be pure, love without an object, obsession over nothing and gouts of oblivion without form.”
― Ben Counter, Battle for the Abyss

“Rylanor looked up towards the sky, where far above, the Warmaster’s fleet was still emptying the last of its deathly payload onto Isstvan III. The ancient Dreadnought stood alone, the only note of peace in the screaming horror of the Choral City’s death.”
― Ben Counter, Galaxy in Flames