Top 100 Pierce Brown Quotes
#1. You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.
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#2. 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. He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.
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#4. Rose petals of a thousand shades fall from the trees as Golds fight beneath them. They're all red in the end.
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#5. For him, death is merely the ultimate frailty. Humans whimper when they die. They claw for life even if there is no hope. He will not. Death is not grander than his pride.
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#6. I do not understand, but I will not let her die knowing anything but my love.
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#8. The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
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#9. His laughter stitches more of me together. Bit by bit, I feel like my friends are coming back to me. Or maybe I'm coming back to them. Suppose
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#10. I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
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#11. It's gonna be a hell of a day. A hell of a day.
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#12. Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men.
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#13. But no matter my value, I am marred. Someone had me, then threw me away. Who would want such a used thing?
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#14. And as we pretend to be brave, we become so. All
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#15. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.
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#16. 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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#18. How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
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#19. Sefi slinks around us, examining the alien Gold and the strange gear she carries. I like the way people talk when Sefi circles. Seems a little more honest.
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#20. I do not sing. I am made for other things.
My death is senseless. It is love
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#21. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming.
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#23. They took Mustang," I tell my pack. They look on silently. The Jackal no longer matters. "So now we take Olympus." The smiles they give one another are as chilling as the snow. Sevro cackles.
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#24. 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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#25. Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution.
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#26. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.
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#27. A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.
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#28. Uses that blade to slice open his hand and suck the scarlet blood from the wound before drawing up and spitting it into Roque's face.
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#29. Life without love is the worst prison of all.
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#30. 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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#31. Never tell me the odds, just do it," I command.
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#32. We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.
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#33. 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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#34. I'm a sheep wearing wolves' clothing in a pack of wolves.
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#35. Absent love, fear will do nicely in a pinch.
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#36. Yet it seems like everyone just wants to follow.
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#38. He would have been a tall boy, but he could never get enough food to put meat on his bones. His mother died next. The people of Lykos did the Fading Dirge for them - a tragic thumping of fists against chests, fading slowly, slowly, till the fists, like her heart, beat no more and all dispersed. The
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#39. Where did you hear that song?" I ask her without sitting up.
"From the HC," she says, blushing. "A little girl sang it. It's soothing."
"It's sad."
"Most things are.
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#40. To free them, to protect them, we must be savages. So give me evil. Give me darkness. Make me the bloodydamn devil if we can bring even the faintest ray of light.
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#41. 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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#42. We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.
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#43. You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
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#44. this is the hell they've built their heaven upon.
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#46. 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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#47. Well." I lean forward seriously. So do Vanno and his bedmates nearby. "If you really want to know, you should ask your mother.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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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#50. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I
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#51. And what you do for the people you love cannot be judged.
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#52. An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within. Remember that. We're empire-breakers, not terrorists. When
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#53. I try to kill him in my heart before I kill him in the flesh.
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#54. If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown," he says, and raises his thin eyebrows. "So keep swimming, right?
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#55. Of course I don't understand. You never let anyone in. Not me. Not Sevro. Look how you treated Mustang. You drive friends away as though they were enemies.
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#56. Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will.
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#57. It's rage and fear leaving our bodies. Though space drags us across the floor to its embrace. Though death might come for us. I am home in this weird screaming mass of humanity. And as we pretend to be brave, we become so.
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#58. For instance, if a fish has 3,453 scales on its left side and 3,453 on its right side, which side of the fish has the most scales? The outside. They call it extrapolational thinking.
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#59. The assembly of warriors stands, faces now smeared with blood, and together we recite the names of our chief enemies. "Karnus au Bellona, Aja au Grimmus, Imperator Tiberius au Bellona, Scipia au Falthe, Octavia au Lune, Agrippina au Julii, and Cassius au Bellona. These are wanted lives." In
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#60. Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.
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#61. Maybe that's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.
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#62. Time is no river. Not here. In this tomb, time is the stone. It is the darkness, permanent and unyielding, its only measure the twin pendulums of life - breath and the beating of my heart. In.
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#63. How are you still standing?" "Because we're not yet done.
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#64. Always so dramatic," Sevro says. "What are your demands, Princess?
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#65. I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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#68. You traumatized Pax, by the way. He's crying. Good work.
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#69. Goddamn amateurs," Trigg mutters. "Ten minutes," Holiday repeats.
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#70. They gave these screens to us as chains. Today, we make them hammers. Karnus
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#71. It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived." -Ragnar Volarus
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#72. I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.
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#73. And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?
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#74. Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.
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#76. We aren't negotiating." "Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is.
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#77. Sacrifice. And I will grow my legend and spread it amongst
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#78. He needed a light. And he made it. Love was his shout into the wind. Same
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#79. 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. Now all I can give you is a chance.
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#80. If they are monsters, we should ask ourselves who made them that way.
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#81. All wounds heal. Even these."
"That's a lie." I tell him.
I'll never be healed of Eo. That pain will last forever.
"Some things do not fade. Some things can never be made right.
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#82. In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down.
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#85. His power is of a different breed. Where I am kinetic energy, he is potential.
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#86. I learn from him around the campfire that he and the Howlers, Thistle, Screwface, Clown, Weed, and Pebble - the dregs of my old House - stayed no longer than a day after I disappeared.
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#87. I am something different. I freed the enslaved and let the broken mend themselves.
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#88. Ares said you lot got important business ... ." "Ares is wise," Sevro says dismissively. "And a drama queen," Victra adds.
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#89. The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute.
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#90. I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There's something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.
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#91. Instead, his training is designed to help my mind adapt to paradigm shifts. For instance, if a fish has 3,453 scales on its left side and 3,453 on its right side, which side of the fish has the most scales? The
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#92. The Golden stock ... ," Mustang murmurs. "How can you be so cold?"
"Little girl," Antonia sighs, "Gold is a cold metal.
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#93. There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes we
fail.
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#94. Sevro lands dramatically before us, spraying us with sand. His ghostCloak ripples away. "Bloodydamn shithole." I
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#95. So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness. This is not how it ends.
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#96. You are a sociopath, Adrius. You don't only do what you need to do. You wear whatever face you need, whatever emotion you desire like a glove.
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#97. The Vale is not real.
It's a lie told by mothers and fathers to give their starving children a reason for the horror. There is no reason.
There is nothing but this world. It is our beginning and our end. Our one chance at joy before the dark.
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#98. Half of being a soldier is being able to sleep anywhere.
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#99. Mankind was always enslaved, they'll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable.
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#100. You are but a mortal," Roque whispers in my ear, riding his horse alongside the chariot, as per tradition.
"And a whorefart," Servo calls from the other side.
"Yes," Roque agrees solemnly. "That too.
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