Red Rising Trilogy Quotes

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

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

“In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.”
― Pierce Brown

“Omnis vir lupus.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“To prosper, your superior must prosper.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven.”
― Pierce Brown

“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

“If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown... so keep swimming, right?”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I see why Demokracy is illegal. First comes yelling. Frustration. Indecision. Disagreements. Ideas.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It’s not his right”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Break the chains.”
― Pierce Brown

“Pliny is a leech," I say. "A liar as much as you're an honest man."
"And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“She turns to the piano and begins a song, slow, mournful, that sounds like the wind in my dreams. As her fingers drift over the keys, the song wakes something inside me besides grief - a shadow, shadow of a shadow in the library of my mind, something I never knew forgotten.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“Break the chaings.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising