The Wicked and the Warped Quotes

“he was old and wise enough to understand that if he kept his objectives sufficiently vague, nearly all outcomes could be classed as a victory.”
― Robert Rath, The Wicked and the Warped

“This is not a void of possibilities, it is a place of endless possibility. The stars are never right, but simultaneously, there’s a timeline where they are always right. The best time to change the future is not the past, it is the present.”
― Robert Rath, The Wicked and the Warped

“My mind is a stylus. I control its direction. I shall focus my mind on the point of the stylus. All attention gathered in the point, set to the task at hand. My mind is a stylus…”
― Robert Rath, The Wicked and the Warped

“You…’ Orikan paused. From the ghost-lines of glyphs scrolling across his ocular, Trazyn knew he was searching his engram-banks for another insult. Trazyn gave him a moment to consider as they fell through the webway tunnel. ‘Had enough, astromancer?’ ‘No, no, I have one. I’m sure of it. Yes, your cape. I do not like how that tile cape of yours rattles.’ ‘You said that.’ ‘Did I? I have no record of it.’ ‘It was insult eight thousand, four hundred and sixty-one. Quote, “Your cloak makes you sound like a deranged troupe of aeldari shell dancers.”’ ‘Ah, it was engramatically tagged under cloak not cape. That explains it.’ ‘Care for another attempt?’ ‘Your… I hate your… No.’ Orikan tumbled a slow somersault, his limbs loose to the passage of the etheric winds. ‘No, I think I am done.”
― Robert Rath, The Wicked and the Warped

“Shaping the future is no trick, Trazyn!’ Orikan shouted, livid now. ‘You do it all the time. You are doing it now! The choice you make in the present shapes your future. Tomorrow this moment will be the past. There’s no need to travel through time to find the optimal result. All you need to do is understand that you, right now, are tomorrow’s past self. If you make good decisions in the present, you will have made good decisions in the future.”
― Robert Rath, The Wicked and the Warped