Bryce O'Connor > Quotes

“My reason, Raz i’Syul Arro, is that if you struck out to eliminate every person who has ever made poor decisions in their life, you would find yourself alone in an empty world when you were done, with your blade at your own throat.”
― Bryce O'Connor, The Warring Son

“The desire for change is enacted by change, not by a lack of it. When things shift, there is a natural outcry, a desire for a shift back. Sometimes this is a positive reaction, sometimes not. Regardless, once that shift becomes the new normal, that desire to effect dissipates and is eventually forgotten.”
― Bryce O'Connor, The Warring Son

“Luck comes to those who wait. … Or those willing to get up and get shit done.” -ancient Earth proverb”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Did you think you were going to drift through life on talent and hard work? Get up. You’re hardly a failure. You only get to think that of yourself when you stop trying to win.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Of blood will be born the next of score-and-four, yet twice will be the cost. The only of his kind, he will fall for a face of snow, and follow and be followed to dark depths and icy summits. Son of the Sun he is. Son of the Sun he will be named.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“Even in death, some souls leave an intangible mark on the world. It is impossible not to feel them there, feel their presence just beyond the veil that separates the living from those already risen into the arms of the Lifegiver. Though I pray the loved ones I’ve lost have long since returned to the world in Laor’s infinite circle of rebirth, I cannot help but feel that some part of each of them remains yet with me, suspended between this old life I was a part of and the new one they must now enjoy. It is painful to feel that presence and the constant reminder it bears to mind, and yet it is simultaneously wondrously consoling to know that they are—even in some small way—still there to watch over and guide me…” —”
― Bryce O'Connor, Winter's King

“By the Sun’s grace, I grow. By the Moon’s, I sleep. It is in their light that the world is, and it is by their light that I shall live.” —“The Twin’s Prayer,” from”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“Rincer Gravin, a burly former bandit with a heavy beard and three fingers missing from his left hand, dropped”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Raz i’Syul,” she explained. “The Grandmother said in the old desert tongue it means ‘Child of the Sun.’ It’s what a lot of people think the atherian believe themselves to be: Children of the Sun and Moon. Children of the Twins.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“Even when his chest began to tighten. Even when his arms screamed that they would fail, screamed that they were at their limit and beyond. He didn’t care, couldn’t care. This was nothing, nothing. He knew pain. Intimately. This was nothing.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Fire and Song

“She will return him to the man he was. She will be his guiding light when he is blind. She will be his anchor to true reason.” —Uhsula, Seer of the Under-Caves”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“You’re gonna be trouble for me,”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“to be human, that’s fine,” Raz retorted, sticking his forked tongue out. “I could smell you from across the camp, Ivas. Humans reek—or wait, that might just be you.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“Of one kind, and yet of another, wings and wind bear him forth. From chains comes his second birth and never shall he stand for them. Child of the Daystar, he will speak the language and be the speaker of his people. To leave and then return, bearing a woman of ice and snow on his arm.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“It’s a strange thing to contemplate, honestly. There’s jealousy. Jealousy at the fact that there are fighters out there who have something that pushes them in a way I lack. At the same time, though… I can’t imagine what life must have been like for them—what struggles they each must have gone through in their own way—to need to outrun their old lives with such absolute desperation…” -”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“User-specific specs include: 1) Strength - measures a User’s physical ability to push, pull, lift, carry, and throw weight. 2) Endurance - measures a User’s physical ability to perform strenuous activity without fatiguing. 3) Speed - measures a User’s physical movement and reaction speed. 4) Cognition - measures a User’s speed of cognitive information processing, and amount of information able to be processed at once. Due to concerns over long-term cerebral damage, Cognition is only active when deliberately applied, most commonly during a CAD-call.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“You don’t want to be jello for your parameter testing tomorrow.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Grreerrrahh?”  the lizard-babe asked again. “Her Stars,” Agais whispered in shock. “Grea. He wants to know where Grea is.” In its entirety, down to even Anges, the youngest among them, the clan gawked at Raz. Then not a few amongst them smiled. Agais stood up, took Raz carefully by the hand, and walked him to the tent where Grea still rested.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“And just when you start to come to terms with the hardships of your own life, you discover that someone, somewhere in some far-off place, exists in a world that makes the difficulties of yours pale in comparison.”
― Bryce O'Connor, As Iron Falls

“List the 7 CAD-Types. Brawler Mauler Lancer Saber Duelist Phalanx A-Type”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Luck comes to those who wait. … Or those willing to get up and get shit done.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“if you make it, remember that good friends can be hard to find in the world you’re about to share.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“There is value to be had in cruelty. One may pray that it is not often, but live a life like ours long enough, and you will doubtlessly find occasion where brutality is the only means to a necessary end…”
― Bryce O'Connor, Of Sand and Snow

“Most unfortunately, conviction can only hold at bay for so long the callous realities of the world.”
― Bryce O'Connor, A Mark of Kings

“He’s unconscious now. He’s unconscious every time I leave him.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Child of the Daystar

“I do not think it unwise to appreciate the material things that give life much of its meaning. Wealth has its place in the pursuit of happiness, after all. That being said… Do not ever lose sight of that which truly matters. Never stray so far from the path that leads you back to family…”
― Bryce O'Connor, As Iron Falls

“Height Dynamics in Self-Modifying Field Variations”—”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Wisdom may make you wise. Cleverness may make you clever. With just the wrong amount of each, though, both may make you a fool.”
― Bryce O'Connor, The Wings of War Boxset: Books 1-4

“All are capable of evil. It often seems, in fact, that it is in the very nature of man to be evil. Greed, envy, lust… We blame all wars, inevitably, on some outside causation, some external factor. Religion, resources, revenge. The truth, however, is more base: war comes from within. War comes from man himself. Man, and his infinite capability to do evil.”
― Bryce O'Connor, The Wings of War Boxset: Books 1-4