Morning Star Quotes

“Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“My chair rolls to a stop. his voice cut short, followed by a thump and sliding sound. My wheelchair rolls forward again. I look back and see Ragnar pushing it innocently along. Sevro isn't in the hallway behind us. I frown, wondering where he went, till he bursts out of a side passage.
"You! Troll!" Sevro shouts. "I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop my candy!" Sevro looks at the floor of the hallway. "Wait. Where is it? Dammit, Ragnar. Where is my peanut bar? You know how many people I had to kill to get that? Six! Six!"
Ragnar chews quietly above me, and though I'm probably mistaken, I think I see him smile.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Reaper, Reaper, Reaper... All deeds that last are painted in blood.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy."
"Fair enough.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Battered and bloody, we join Cassius, Lysander, and Sevro before the door leading out of the Sovereign's inner sanctum as Cassius types in the Olympic code to open the doors. He pauses to sniff the air. 'What's that smell?'
'Smells like a sewer,' I say.
Sevro stares intensely at the razors he's taken from Aja, including the one belonging to Lorn. 'I think it smells like victory.'
'Did you shit your pants?' Cassius squints at him. 'You did.'
'Sevro...' Mustang says.
'It's an involuntary muscle reaction when you're fake executed and swallow massive amounts ofhaemanthus oil,' Sevro snaps. 'You think I would do that on purpose?'
Cassius and I look at each other.
I shrug. 'Well, maybe.'
'Yeah, actually.'
He flips us the crux and makes a face, twisting his lips till it looks like he's going to explode. 'What's happening?' I ask. 'Are you... still...'
'No!”
― Pierce Brown

“That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recriminations and guilt, but that's only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“They want a leader, and if the Reaper of Mars decides to come back from the dead here...you won't have an army, you'll have a tide at your heels.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.

It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one”
― Pierce Brown

“For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.”
― Henry Williamson, Lucifer Before Sunrise

“Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Justice isn't about fixing the past, it's about fixing the future.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read. Honor is what you do.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Oh shit. Sorry brother man.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Bye, Felicia"-Victra au Julii”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Wir kämpfen nicht für die Toten. Wir kämpfen für die Lebenden. Und für die, die noch gar nicht geboren sind. Für eine Chance, Kinder zu haben.”
― Pierce Brown

“Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen.
(Out of Doors in February)”
― Richard Jefferies, Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies

“The hugeness of the Antarctic laughs at our size and self-importance, thinking how easily it could snuff out the heat in our little chests. But our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Alia turns back to us, beleaguered. Her steps are slow and measured as she comes before us. "Which would you fear more, Virginia au Augustus, a god? Or a mortal with the power of a god?" The question hangs between them, creating a rift words cannot mend. "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." Her corrupt voice chills my blood.
She knows.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star