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“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“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, 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, Red Rising

“Love and war are two different battlefields.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
― Pierce Brown, 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, Red Rising

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

“Liars make the best promises.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Everyone's honest till they're caught in a lie.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“If you're a fox, play the hare. If you're the hare, play the fox.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“In another life, you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And for those who aren’t yet born.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Bye, Felicia.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“The Reaper has come. And he’s brought hell with him.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“During war, the laws are silent.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“It is a mistake to believe we must know a thing to be influenced by it. It is a mistake to believe the thing must even be real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to his door.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence