The Emperor's Gift Quotes

“I will tell you how this ends, Jarl Grimnar. It ends with you on your knees, as the first High King of Fenris to bare his throat to a foe's blade. Refuse, and suffer the excommunication of your Chapter and the Exterminatus of your miserable home world”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Emperor's Gift

“So be it.’ She faded into silence. I could feel what she wanted to say. She wished to apologise for letting her anger get the better of her, and for sending us here to die, but the word ‘sorry’ was too alien to an inquisitor’s tongue. ‘Hyperion?’ +Mistress?+ ‘Hiljah kah uhtganjen mev tarvahettan.’ My laughter carried over the vox. Greet the end with courage. Fenrisian poetry at its blunt best.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Emperor's Gift

“There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I’d often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men’s ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Emperor's Gift