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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Being able to run faster than most people doesn’t make me any more likely to outrun a horse, does it?”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Never war for war’s sake. War for the peace that follows.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“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

“her breast heaving”
― Bryce O'Connor, Winter's King

“You make it sound like rocket science,”
― 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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“The next day, Viv dominated her match against Gillian North so thoroughly, the fight ended about as quickly as Conrad Fae’s against Casey Foreman. The Mauler came head-on across the Grasslands field, and Viv’s Speed had placed her behind the broader girl as North had swung and wasted her opening strike, burying the head of her axe into the soft ground of the windy plains. Bilaterally severing her opponent’s hamstrings with a flash of Gemela’s sword, Viv barely missed a killing blow with her dagger at the back of North’s head when the Mauler tucked as she dropped, trying to roll out of the way”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince