The Emperor's Legion Quotes

“I have come to believe,’ the chancellor said, ‘that in failure often lies our best sign of truth. I failed in the Council, and only now see that I was cleaving to a doomed course. The harder I pushed, the more I was resisted. I couldn’t cross the threshold. I should have taken that, I think, as a sign to examine my instincts.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“The void itself looked just as it ever did. You’d never have known there was anything wrong, and the stars burned across the arch of darkness, cold and clear. All that terror was cloistered on the other side, locked across the divide of emptiness, barred from psychics by laws older than the universe itself.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“I felt no discernible difference in my response to them than that I had experienced when hunting xenotype tyranids and eldar in these same tunnels – they were all dangerous, all worthy of study, but unworthy of expending emotional energy upon.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I suppose that is the tragedy of our kind- we are as moths to the candle, bound inextricably to the thing that destroys us.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“There was a dark irony to that. For so long we had benefitted from the esoteric properties of the Cadian pylons to keep our enemies restricted. Now, having burst his bonds, the Despoiler had turned the wreckage of his old cage into weapons.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“Say you release the Custodians from their vigil here. They say there are ten thousand of them. The enemy numbers in the billions. A lion is a poor hunter to set against so many jackals.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“That's the great danger that condemns us - not daemon blades, but dumb ignorance. We've become a stupid race, glorying in the easy goals of anger and piety.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“Even now, hard against the End of Time, when the death rattle of our species has become audible even to the thick-eared, they still grasp for a little more of the things we have always desired - coin, power, knowledge, gratification.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“That was perhaps the darkest of the many secrets we carried – that from the very beginning, from even before the Great Crusade itself, we had been prepared for this and engineered to surpass them. To the galaxy at large these warriors were the greatest of His created weapons, the apogee of His martial genius. We considered them only as our natural prey.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“Things will unfold as they will. Experience has made me more accepting of that. I no longer entertain the darkest of thoughts. I have learned, I think, to trust a little more. I have learned to let things go. Most of all, I no longer doubt.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion

“Perhaps I should have listened to Slovo’s warnings, but then temperance had never been my strong point, and, as Hestia had always told me, there is greater power in righteous wrath than in meek acceptance.”
― Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion