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“I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor”
― Dan Abnett, Horus Rising

“But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.”
― Dan Abnett, Xenos

“We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.”
― Dan Abnett, Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?
Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.”
― Dan Abnett, Hereticus

“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, Legion

“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, Ravenor

“All the way to hell. In a fancy paper hat.”
― Dan Abnett, Titanicus

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka