The Twice-dead King Quotes

“It been considered distasteful, at least among the upper echelons of necrontyr culture, to talk of luck. To speak of bad luck was simply to confess your incompetence but speaking of good little better, as was an admission that elements of your reality were outside your control. Even when star of the home world had ended one of its relatively benign cycles and the mass graves the commoner’s districts were only half full by the solstice. That was not good luck, merely weakness on the sun's part.”
― Nate Crowley, The Twice-dead King: Reign

“Never let your scars become drowned in gold.”
― Nate Crowley, The Twice-dead King: Reign

“Simple reason suggested that the Space Marines of the Lystraegonian were, by now, categorically out of the fight. But reason, Oltyx had learned over the course of the Akrops' flight, was near useless as a measure for understanding the actions of humanity,”
― Nate Crowley, The Twice-dead King: Reign

“Yenekh sent nothing in return but glyphs of profound obedience, arranged with an immaculate balance of humility and flare. The fact the sequence could also be read in an obscure homeworld dialect from before biotransference, in which it would translate as 'took your fly-blown time', was surely an artefact of chance.”
― Nate Crowley, The Twice-dead King: Reign