The Lost Quotes

“All right. Then will you let me walk the daeda waeg with you? Will you let me help you make the blood toll?’ Eszrah nodded. ‘Good, then.’ Side by side, they clambered down through the rocks onto the desert floor. ‘How many of them do we have to kill?’ Mkoll asked. ‘To make the blood toll, I mean?’ Eszrah grinned. ‘All of them, soule,’ he said.”
― Dan Abnett, The Lost

“the martial art of the long-vanished Tanith wood-warriors, the Nalsheen. In the old days, it was said, the Nalsheen had banded together in the oblique forests of Tanith and, armed only with fighting staves tipped with silver knives, had overthrown the corrupt Huhlhwch Dynasty, ushering in the age of modern, free Tanith.”
― Dan Abnett, The Lost

“Explain to me what it is,’ Gaunt said to Landerson bluntly. Landerson shrugged. ‘I can’t… I mean, I’m no magister, no sorcerer. I don’t understand the workings of Chaos.’ ‘Try!’ Gaunt snapped. ‘It’s an expression of the warp,’ Plower said. ‘That’s what I was told. The Archenemy has branded our world in every way, even the atmosphere. A glyf is the way Chaos makes its mark on the very air. A glyf is a thought, a concept, an idea… an utterance of the Ruinous Powers somehow conjured into solid form. Some say they’re sentient. I don’t believe that. Glyfs are Chaos runes, sigils, symbols, whatever you want to call them. The ordinals summon them into being and release them to watch over the populace. They drift, they patrol, they lurk…’ ‘Great,’ cut in Curth sourly. ‘But what do they do?’ Plower looked at her. ‘I suppose you could describe them as tripwires. Sensors. Alarms. They react to human activity. I’ve no idea how. Certainly, they respond to imagos. If they detect anything unconsented, they… they react. They summon.”
― Dan Abnett, The Lost

“To say that the two assassins were dead was as much of an understatement as saying that a supernova is the end of a star’s life. It conveyed nothing of the catastrophic violence involved.”
― Dan Abnett, The Lost

“Climb a mountain of bodies under heavy fire to a dead end. Why would we do that, sir? Because the Emperor tells you to.”
― Dan Abnett, The Lost