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

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Plato

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“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

“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Forget a man’s name and he’ll forgive you. Remember it, and he’ll defend you forever.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Break the chains, my love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother of Darrow, Morning Knight of the Solar Republic, and my honor remains.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“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

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

“Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.”
― 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

“Rise so high, in mud you lie.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I'd rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“I can't imagine a world where the man holding a sword does not have the last say over the man without one.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“It’s never acceptable to be less than you are.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“You call me a monster because I won’t let you treat me like my life is worthless, a thing to be used and thrown away?” it said. “You call me a monster because I refuse to live like you think I deserve? If that’s what you mean by monster, watch me be monstrous!”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service?”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“He told himself he could stop when he could no longer make the next step. He also told himself he could always make at least the next step.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“To achieve greater results we must outlay greater efforts”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons