Top 100 Pierce Brown Quotes
#1. Eo didn't deserve to die a slave to the Society. And despite her Color, Mustang doesn't deserve any sort of bridle.
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#3. It is the food that keeps my army content. As the great Corsican once said, "An army marches on its stomach." Then again, he didn't fare so well in the winter.
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#6. We all have our own tides inside. They go in. Out." He shrugs. "Not really ours to control. The things, people, that orbit us do that, at least more than we'd like to admit.
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#7. My father for teaching me the grace of power unused, and mother for teaching me the joy of power used well.
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#8. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.
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#9. I'm a sheep wearing wolves' clothing in a pack of wolves.
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#10. I could give a shit and piss who this is. She knows who we are. And she ain't got a little trickle goin' down her leg standing toe to toe with the bloodydamn Reaper of Mars, then she's got less brains than a wad of ass lint.
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#11. Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.
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#12. Did I read the myths of the Greeks? Of strong men gaining glory for their own heads? No. I told them tales of Arthur, of the Nazarene, of Vishnu. Strong heroes who wished only to protect the weak.
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#13. Sacrifice. And I will grow my legend and spread it amongst
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#14. His power is of a different breed. Where I am kinetic energy, he is potential.
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#15. Ares said you lot got important business ... ." "Ares is wise," Sevro says dismissively. "And a drama queen," Victra adds.
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#16. The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute.
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#17. As the world swirls around us and the ecstasy of war fills the air, Mustang and I look at one another with darkened eyes and wonder just what we have unleashed.
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#18. 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.
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#19. back even though I am about to die. "She said she loved you." I don't believe her, but I smile and kiss her forehead.
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#20. Better to go into that world in the full glory of some passion than to fade and wither with age. Live fast. Die young, my wayward friend.
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#21. I've never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I
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#23. But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction.
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#24. Anything that believes only in itself cannot go happily into the night.
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#25. Meat and bone explode, filling the air with red mist,
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#28. It fills me with a strange emptiness knowing that I was enough for her when I was never enough for Eo.
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#29. 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.
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#30. my uncle told me that it's women who see us better than we see ourselves. That
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#31. It's like they suddenly don't understand what it is they have created. I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band around my neck. They didn't create me. She did. It
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#32. Funny thing, watching gods realize they've been mortal all along.
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#33. Even the cruel feel pain. And even the cruel can change.
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#34. I always thought I would die before the end. I trudged on knowing I was doomed. But my friends have breathed love into me, breathed my faith back into my bones. They've made me want to live.
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#35. Wisdom is found in the heart not the head.
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#36. Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they'd wish to be.
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#37. Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground. I
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#38. What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I
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#39. Silly Poet. Haven't you wondered where Sevro is?
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#40. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. Or perhaps they think I'm still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation. We
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#41. My name is Darrow, leader of House Mars. I'm here to meet with your Primus, if you have one. If you don't, your leader will suffice. And if you don't have one of those either, take me to whoever has the biggest balls.
Silence.
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#42. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it.
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#43. If you're not vomiting during a workout, you're not trying,
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#44. Love and war are two different battlefields.
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#45. They want visionaries. Leaders of men. Not reapers of them. There are limits," she continues. I snap.
"There are no goddamned limits.
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#46. I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.
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#47. She's an engineer of oppression, and one of the best minds of Gold. And she tried to kill Sevro. Bad play.
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#48. Mother bid me to tell you: a pauper can never be a prince. Every time you look in the mirror, remember what we did to you. Remember you breathe because we let you. Remember your heart will one day be on our table. Rise so high, in mud you lie.
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#49. Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom ... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.
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#50. Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.
For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.
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#51. So what? We're supposed to whip Titus? Kill him? That would be Law." "Would it? Or would it just be vengeance?" "You're the poet. You figure it out." I kick a stone off the ramparts.
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#53. My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
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#54. There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.
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#55. ...power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.
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#56. You! Troll!" Sevro shouts. "I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop by candy!
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#57. No animal but man throws themselves willingly into the flames.
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#58. I panic as suicides do when they realize their folly.
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#59. This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty.
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#60. Everything she is dwells behind her eyes. She has her father's mind. Her mother's face. And a distant, foreboding sort of intelligence that can give you wings or crush you to the earth.
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#61. Stay close. Nut to butt, sir. Don't be shy.
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#62. Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.
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#63. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.
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#64. ArchGovernor's ears," Podginus orders. Bridge forces
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#65. You make one tribe out of twelve," I finally say. "By taking slaves."
Just like the Society. Build on the backs of others. It isn't cruel. It is practical.
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#66. But this is why I was made. To dive into hell. I
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#67. Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war.
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#69. I take his shoulder and bring him close like he's a brother. I know the power touch can have.
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#70. In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War
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#71. Yet it takes only one truth to bring a kingdom of lies crashing down. Ragnar
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#73. Everyone is so frightened of change," I say before smiling sincerely at the broken man. "You remind me of my uncle.
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#74. You're making me emotional, and I hate it.
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#75. Imagine all those unborn. If it is not me, someone else will rise. Ten years from now. Fifty. A thousand. We will break the chains, no matter the cost. You cannot stop us. We are the tide.
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#76. You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks.
"I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized?
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#77. My cloak stinks like the dead thing it is. It hangs limp behind me. White stained with a Proctor's blood. I pull up the hood. We all do. We look like wolves. And we smell blood. The
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#78. Any fool can stick a blade into another's belly. The school's role is to find the leaders of men, not the killers of men. So the point, you silly little children, is not to kill, but to conquer.
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#80. I want it all. And to get it, I'm willing to do anything. Even share.
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#81. And with a great pull, I rip out the tongue of the Jackal.
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#82. So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.
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#83. I am the star in the night sky. I am the blade in the twilight. I am the god, the glory.
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#84. I look down at my hands. They are what Dancer called them - cut, scarred, burned things. When Eo kissed them, they grew gentle for love. Now that she is gone, they grown hard for hate.
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#85. Then what is your suggestion?" "You stop being such a little bitch.
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#86. And there's the beauty of space. A billion paths to choose.
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#87. All ears yearn for a voice to lead them through darkness.
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#88. Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.
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#89. The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.
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#90. exists. Why all these speeches and monuments. Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to legitimize corrupt reign, and to alienate the people. Make them feel they watch a species beyond their comprehension.
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#91. Mustang ignores her. "He said he always had his eye on me." She reaches into her pocket, pulls something out, and drops it onto the floor. "So I took one of his." Sevro
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#92. If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes.
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#94. My enemies embarrassed you. So they embarrassed me, Darrow. You told me you would win. But then you lost. And that changes everything.
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#95. In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down, he says.
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#96. Sevro snorts. "What do you think I've been doing this whole time, you silky turd? Wanking off in the bushes?"
Cassius and I look at each other.
"Kind of," I say.
"Yeah, actually," Cassius agrees.
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#97. -Imagine a world without the arrogance of the young.-
-Imagine a world without the greed of the old.-
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#98. You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children.
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#99. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.
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#100. I've won. I hate politics. Especially in a room full of alphas.
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