Plague War Quotes

“Rejoice, for I bring you glorious news.
God walks among us.
So ran the first two lines of the Lectitio Divinitatus.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“Maybe, he thought, I did not read it because I was afraid that Lorgar was right.
How can I know without reading it?
He did not care that he had wronged Lorgar, but that he had abandoned his own intellectual rigour. He had been a fanatic as much as Lorgar was, after his own fashion.
Theoretical: I must set this right. Practical: I must read it.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“Kul'Gath was closely associated with the divine. He knew no god could avoid mistakes entirely.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“Revealing the truth of daemonkind would have strengthened them enormously, for men would never have been able to put them from their thoughts, and that made them strong.
The Emperor had been trying to save humanity from the horror of its own mind.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“They said the Emperor protects, but most of the laity misunderstood the saying. They assumed the Emperor would protect them personally, but the Emperor's role was to safeguard the species. A single man meant nothing at all.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“The girl's abilities are subdued by hexagrammatic chains. She is blanked by Obsidian Knight Voi. If she were a vessel of the Emperor's will, neither of these things would affect her.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“Although I accept what I once regarded as superstitions as occulted fact, my grasp of the esoteric is limited. My guess is that they are a type of psyker, whose empowerment is stabilised by their faith in the Emperor. The Sisters of Battle manifest psychic effects when sorely pressed, and these are brought on by their faith. It may be a saint is merely an extreme example of this phenomenon.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War

“I cannot allow myself to be subordinate to anything except the survival of the human race, not even an idea, and certainly not a belief. If I were to become dominated by one faction or another, then I would serve their ends, and not those of humanity.”
― Guy Haley, Plague War