“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Love and war are two different battlefields.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Funny how a single word can change everything in your life."
"It is not funny at all. Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“My love, my love
Remember the cries
When winter died for spring skies
They roared and roared
But we grabbed our seed
And sowed a song
Against their greed
And
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper swing, the reaper swing
the reaper swing
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper sing
A tale of winter done
My son, my son
Remember the chains
When gold ruled with iron reins
We roared and roared
And twisted and screamed
For ours, a vale
of better dreams”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I'm a sheep wearing wolves' clothing in a pack of wolves.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Look into yourself, Darrow, and you’ll
realize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things."....
“See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad
things?”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Promises are just chains," she rasps. "Both are meant for breaking.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. Or perhaps they think I'm still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“In the face of cold power, she is fire.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society. Could you imagine it? Mars could be ours. It could belong to the colonists who slaved here, died here." Her face is easier to see as the night fades through the clear roof. It is alive, on fire. "If you led the others to freedom. The things you could do, Darrow. The things you could make happen." She pauses and I see her eyes are glistening. "It chills me. You have been given so, so much, but you set your sights so low."
"You repeat the same damn points," I say bitterly. "You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn't. You say it's better to die on your feet. I say it's better to live on our knees."
"You're not even listening!" she snaps. "We are machine men with machine minds, machine lives …"
"And machine hearts?" I ask. "That's what I am?"
"Darrow …"
"What do you live for?" I ask her suddenly. "Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it just for some dream?"
"It's not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them."
"I live for you," I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars," I say.
"Oooo. I am Reaper. God of wolves. King of strategy." Mustang pinches my cheek. "You are just too adorable.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“ 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.' ”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don’t need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“I am no martyr. I am not vengeance. I am Eo's dream.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“Manage your temper" he reminds me, his small voice darkening. "Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means
“blood blossom.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
“All wounds heal. Even these."
"That's a lie." I tell him.
I'll never be healed of Eo. That pain will last forever.
"Some things do not fade. Some things can never be made right.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Red Rising
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“Why not?" she said, "and take note of what I am about to say to you. Never feel secure with the woman you love, for there are more dangers in woman's nature than you imagine. Women are neither as good as their admirers and defenders maintain, nor as bad as their enemies make them out to be. Woman's character is characterlessness. The best woman will momentarily go down into the mire, and the worst unexpectedly rises to deeds of greatness and goodness and puts to shame those that despise her. No woman is so good or so bad, but that at any moment she is capable of the most diabolical as well as of the most divine, of the filthiest as well as of the purest, thoughts, emotions, and actions. In spite of all the advances of civilization, woman has remained as she came out of the hand of nature. She has the nature of a savage, who is faithful or faithless, magnanimous or cruel, according to the impulse that dominates at the moment. Throughout history it has always been a serious deep culture which has produced moral character. Man even when he is selfish or evil always follows principles, woman never follows anything but impulses. Don't ever forget that, and never feel secure with the woman you love.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, quote from Venus in Furs
“What kind of city doesn’t have a football team? Explain that to me, Wes.” “They do have one,” I point out. “The Argonauts.” Richard narrows his eyes. “Is it an NFL team?” “Well, no, it’s CFL, but—” “Then they don’t have a team,” he says firmly. I stifle a laugh.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from The Voyage Out
“So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”
― Aimee Bender, quote from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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