But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

— Dan Abnett

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shake spire's plays!

— Dan Abnett

Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

— Dan Abnett

Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw back his head and screamed a curse at the stars. Then his voice fell to a whisper. Token was close enough to hear his words.‘Why have you tasked me with this, father? Why have you forsaken me? Why? It is too hard. It is too much. Why did you leave me to do this on my own?

— Dan Abnett

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

— Dan Abnett

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

— Dan Abnett

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

— Dan Abnett

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

— Dan Abnett

Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

— Dan Abnett

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.

— Dan Abnett