The Horus Heresy Sentences, Condensed
(Sentences from The Horus Heresy (2006-2024) and related stories. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"The difference between gods and demons depends on where one is standing at the time."
"A weapon doesn't question who it kills or why. That isn't the point of weapons."
"I have never quite come to terms with my status. I see what I am capable of, and what is expected of me, and I shudder. The mere fact of me frightens me sometimes."
"The truth can't be wrong, even if it is ugly."
"Some of the things you have told me sound like wonders, yet you yourself do not seem to wonder at them."
"There is no fundamental immutable evil in the cosmos. It is too large and sterile for such melodrama."
"Answer me this: how far does your loyalty go?"
"I am your sword. Tell me where to strike."
"Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has a chance."
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shriek and groans of the dying who cry aloud for blood, vengeance, and desolation."
"There is little of you that can still be called human, isn't there?"
"When you live as complex a life as I have, you learn that it always comes down to a single moment. A moment in which a man finds out once and for all who he really is. This is that moment. Will it be a moment you are proud to look back on, or one you regret for the rest of your life?"
"No army will stand before you, no power of mortal man will lay you low, and no ambition will be denied you if you swear yourself to me."
"The more we learn, the more we question - and the more we question, the more we see through the lies perpetrated upon us."
"Glory? Glory is for those too weak to find inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites feeding on the affection of lesser men."
"There is no virtue in fighting for conquest. Nothing is more worthless and hollow than obliterating freedom for the sake of more land, more coin, more voices singing your name in holy hymn."
"Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for. It is why tyrants always fall."
"There are no gods. No herefores and hereafters. No futures but those we make for ourselves."
"We think we have seen it all, and yet there always comes a day when the universe shows us the folly of that hubris."
"There comes a moment for each of us when we are tested. What happens in that moment is the true measure of us."
"You are afraid of this truth because it is of such magnitude that you will be forever remade by it. What you do not realise is that you have already been changed."
"I envy you. You have something I do not. A duty. You know what it is you must do. You can find that clarity of vision - a mission you must strive to fulfil."
"Only in death does duty end, and you are not dead yet."
"You are my brother. I would have walked unto death with you. Why could you not have done the same for me?"
"There is no greater rivalry than that which exists between siblings."
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