The Flight of the Eisenstein Quotes

“Each one was naked, and bloated around the torso and belly with gaseous buboes and grotesque sores that wept thick pus. Heads were shrunken balls of flaking skin over rictus-grinning skulls. All of them had trains of buzzing insects following behind them, tiny bottle-green flies that dived in and out of the invaders’ open wounds.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein

“The moment became long before he spoke. ‘It knew what I was. It said it could see tomorrow. It told me all I worship would die.’ Garro sneered. ‘But I am an Astartes. I worship nothing. I honour no false god, only the reality of Imperial truth.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein

“What we are is as much where destiny takes us as it is what we do with the journey.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein

“They say the warp has turned black with tempests and the freakish things that lurk within them! And here we sit, on a ship held together by rust and hope, with intent to dive into that ocean of madness.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein

“They sickened Hakur to such a degree that he attacked instantly, so abhorrent were these things that the thought of their continued existence revolted him.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein

“Warriors must know that they are valued. Praise… praise from one’s peers must be given when the moment is right. Without it, even the most steadfast man will eventually feel unvalued.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein