The End and the Death Quotes

“Courage isn’t a passive quality. Whether instinctive or forced, it’s the condition of acting in the face of danger.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“Sigismund lowers his blade as the tanks roll past him on either side. For a moment, he feels respect for the enemy’s resolve. They have not broken or run. Their ranks unstitched by raging fire, they have remained resolute. They are Astartes still, some shred at least. Then he corrects his thinking. It’s not Astartes courage. It’s stupidity. It’s the obstinate arrogance of a battle group that has become too used to being superior to anything and everything it meets on the field.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“Even a father can learn from his children. The restless fortitude of Jaghatai. The cunning of Alpharius. The confidence of Roboute. The dauntless heart of Mortarion, afraid of nothing, not even death. The way that Russ trained anger to be utterly loyal, while Angron enslaved anger so it could not master him. The patient resolve of Rogal, willing to make, abandon, and remake his plans, again and again, over and over, until he has refined the one that will work, unafraid to redraft and change his scheme.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“The patient resolve of Rogal, willing to make, abandon, and remake his plans, again and again, over and over, until he has refined the one that will work, unafraid to redraft and change his scheme.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“But mettle lasts where metal rusts.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“The dead now outnumber the living, but both the living and the dead are outnumbered by the deathless and the never-alive-at-all.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II

“She observes their habits and the games they play to stay alert. Regicide, Nine-gambit and Senet in the officers’ refectory; Ashtapada in cartography; Gow, and Hounds and Wolves, in the war room; games of dice and wager in the billet decks; hands of Tarock on the fuse canisters of the autoloaders; rounds of Song and Cartomance in the dining halls, fast-shuffled turns of Thrice-My-Trick in the boiler sumps.”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume II