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“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Speak and they will listen," she urges. "It is that bloody simple. All ears yearn for a voice to lead them through darkness.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“We must take a different path. A nation cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within. Remember that. We’re nation-breakers, not terrorists.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Per aspera ad astra.” “Through the thorns to the stars.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Death begets death begets death.”
― Pierce Brown

“Take us from our bubbles of life, and what are we?”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Slavery is not peace. Freedom is peace.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind.” He looks up at me. “A good friend jumps with.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived." -Ragnar Volarus”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“A god cannot die. So a god has no fear. But mortal men…” She clucks her tongue behind her stained teeth. “How frightened they are that the darkness will come. How horribly they will fight to stay in the light.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“You and I keep looking for light in the darkness, expecting it to appear. But it already has.” I touch his shoulder. “We’re it, boyo. Broken and cracked and stupid as we are, we’re the light, and we’re spreading.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“But they shared a dream. One of a free world. Not built on corpses, but on hope. On the love that binds us, not the hate that divides. We have lost many. But we are not broken. We are not defeated. We fight on. But we do not fight for revenge for those who have died. We fight for each other. We fight for those who live. We fight for those who don’t yet live.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“See the world', he told himself, taking a long breath then letting it out, 'not your dream of the world'. [Kaden]”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“It had seemed an awful fate once, being stuck in that endless black. That was before the blade had taught Valyn hui'Malkeenian a greater, more terrible truth: the outer dark, for all its horrors - the old, cold dark of caverns or the bottomless dark of the dead - it was nothing when set beside the darkness bled into poisoned flesh and carved across ruined eyes, a darkness of the self.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“Two moments,” he replied quietly, “out of twenty-four years.” “The moments are all that matter, Jak. People talk about lifetimes, but lifetimes are built out of moments. The decisions we make, the ones that matter, the ones that get people killed or keep them alive…” She snapped her fingers. “They’re that fast.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“Courage is being scared of a task and doing it anyway.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“That’s life, Gordo. You can’t always prepare for everything. Sometimes you’ll never see it coming. You have to hold on with all of your might and believe that one day, everything will be okay again. [Abel]”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“But sometimes things happen that we don’t expect. Like finding a boy with magic in his skin who is everything.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“Can you imagine that? Just a few years ago they were calling me a hero. People toasted to my health in every tavern, but now … well, it’s amazing how fast they can turn on you.” [Alric Essendon]”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire

“One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.”
― Michael J. Sullivan

“How much silk, gold, and marble does it take to blind the world?”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire

“The powerful control the weak. The rich exploit the poor. It’s the way it’s always been and how it always will be.” [Royce Melborn]”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire

“Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?”
“I’m not sure. How do you tell?”
“Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” [Antun Bulard]”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire

“My father used to say, ‘A knight draws his sword for three reasons: to defend himself, to defend the weak, and to defend his lord,’ but he always added, ‘Never defend yourself against the truth, never defend the weakness in others, and never defend a lord without honor.’” [Wesley Belstrad]”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire