Sind wohl meine Lieblings-Zitate:
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Ghosts - Honour Guard, Dan Abnett - Seite 89
'See if you can do better,' Gaunt hissed as he went through the bottles one bsy one until he found one that wasn't empty.
Milo looked at the book, thumbing through, seeing the passages Gaunt had feverishly underlined and scribbled over.
'Defeat is but a step towards victory.Take that step with confidence or you will not
ascend.'
Gaunt swung around sharply, sloshing the overfilled glass he had just poured.
'Where does it say that?'
'It doesen't. I'm paraphrasing one of your speeches to the men.
Gaunt hurled the glass at Milo. The boy ducked.
'Feth you! You always were a clever little bastard!
Ich finde diesen Ausspruch einfach genial.
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Ghosts - The Guns of Tanith, Dan Abnett - Seite 303
There was a human standing in the rear doorway of the room. An Imperial soldier half-shrouded in a ragged camo-cape, his lasrifle aimed at them.
'Where the hell did you come from?' Slaith raged.
'Tanith', said Mkoll, and fired again.
Slaith walked forward through the blasts unharmed, the flinching loxatl at his side, double-lids shut against the las-shots, armature cycling up their flechette cannons.
'A lasgun?' said Slaith. 'I'm shielded and the loxatl soak up las-fire. You're out of luck. You should have been better prepared.'
'Oh, this is just a distraction,' said Mkoll, gesturing with his lasrifle. 'The real surprise is under the table.'
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Ghosts - Ghostmaker, Dan Abnett - Seite 28
'Who in the name of Balor's blood...?' Thorne began.
Halting his column, the leader, a huge blackguard with a mess of tangled beard and a tattoo - a tattoo! - marched up to Thoren and saluted.
'Colonel Corbec, 1st Tanith. First-and-Only. General Hardrak has ordered us forward to assist you.'
'Tanith? Where the hell is that?' asked Thoren.
'It isn't,' replied the big man genially.
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Ghosts - Ghostmaker, Dan Abnett - Seite 115
An old myth. A hunk of stone.
'But-' Larkin started as Corbec dragged him to his feet.
'But nothing!' Corbed laughed.
Larkin began to laugh too. He convulsed and gagged with the force of laughter inside him.
Corbec dragged him from the chapel, both laughing still.
The very last thing Larkin saw before Corbec wrenched him away, his fallen lasgun, with the peerless, scorched white cloth still wrapped around the barrel.
Nun ja, leider kann ich ja nicht das komplette Kapitel posten, aber ich finde es sehr genial.
The angel of Bucephalon
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Ghosts - Ghostmaker, Dan Abnett - Seite 57
'He's here,' Gilbear said with an insouciant smirk. Sturm got to his feet and straightened his jacket. 'Bring him in,' he said.
Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt marched into the study.
He stood, glowering at Sturm and his adjutant.
'Gaunt!' Sturm said. 'You opened the way for the Royal Volpone. Good show! I hear Chanthar turned a melta on himself.' He paused and absently tapped at a data-slate on his desk. 'But then this business with what's-his-name...?'
'Ortega, sir,' Gilbear said helpfully.
'Ortiz,' Gaunt corrected.
'The Ketzok-fellow. Striking a fellow officer. That'sa shooting-offence, and you know it, Gaunt.Won't have it, not in this army. No, sir.'
Gaunt breathed deeply. 'Despite knowing our position, and line of retreat, the artillery unit pounded the eastern flanks of Bokore Valley for six hours straight. They call the phenomenon "friendly fire", but I can tell you, when you're in the target zine with nothing but twigs and dust for cover, it's nothing like friendly. I lost nearly three hundred men, another two hundred injured. Amongst the dead was Sergeant Cluggan, who had led the second prong of my assault and whose actions had actually won us the city.'
'Bad show indeed.,' Sturm admitted. 'but you must learn to expect this kind of loss, Gaunt. This is war.' He tossed the data-slate aside. 'How hitting business. Chain of cmmand and all that. My hands are tied. IT's to be a court martial.'
Gaunt was level and unblinking. 'If you're going to shoot me for it, get on with it. I struck Ortiz in the heat of the moment. In hindsight, I realise he was probably following orders. Some damn fool orders from HQ.'
'Now look, you jumped up-' Gilbear began, stepping forward.
[...]
'I think you should know.' Gaunt said, low and deadly, 'it seems that callous murder can be commited out here in the lawless warzones, and the fact of it can be hidden by the confusion of war. You should bear that in mind, general, sir.
Sturm was lost for words for a moment. By the time he had remembered to dismiss Gaunt, the commissar had already gone.
Etwas länger, aber der Auftritt von Gaunt gegenüber einem höhergestellten Offizier ist einfach nur genial. <:
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Geister - Das Attentat, Dan Abnett - Seite 77
>Jeder ha teine Wahl. Meine Wahl ist die, keine Wahl zu treffen. Was? Was denn? Was ist so komisch daran?<
- Hlaine Larkin, Geist
Warhammer 40'000, Gaunts Geister - Das Attentat, Dan Abnett - Seite 447
>Kein anderes Holz kommt in Frage. Verstehen Sie?<
>Ja, Herr Gaunt<, sagte Guffrey Wyze.
>Das heißt Kommissar-Oberst...<, begann Gaunt und schüttelte den Kopf. >Nalholz. Und zwar alles.<
>Es ist ihr Geld, mein Herr. Für einen Freund von ihnen?<
>Freund, Bruder, Geist.<, sagte Gaunt.
Wyze lächelte. >Davon gibt es hier reichlich.<
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Seite 88
"Oh, I know," exclaimed Alice, who had not attended this last remark. "It's a vegetable. It doesen't look like one, but it is."
"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess," and the moral of that is -'Be what you would seem to be' - or, if you'd like to put it more simply - 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
Naja, wenn mir noch was einfällt... :>