“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem. - Quicksilver”
Source: Morning Star
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Famous Pierce Brown Quotes
Source: Golden Son
Source: Red Rising
“Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.”
Source: Golden Son
Source: Light Bringer
“Using the claws of others is not brave, nor is it the same as having claws.”
Source: Iron Gold
“As we pretend to be brave, we become so.”
Source: Morning Star
“Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.”
Source: Golden Son
“I see Lorn forwning at me in disapproval. Alexandar looking up at me for approval.”
Source: Light Bringer
Source: Dark Age
“Assassination is probably the only enterprise where private industry is not more efficient”
Source: Iron Gold
Source: Morning Star
“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
Source: Golden Son
“It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.”
Source: Golden Son
“In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.”
“To prosper, your superior must prosper.”
Source: Golden Son
“I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven.”
“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything.”
Source: Golden Son
“This is war. Chaos. Chance. Death.”
Source: Golden Son
Source: Golden Son
Source: Golden Son
“Guard your hubris. Remember Pax. Pride kills.”
Source: Golden Son
Source: Golden Son
“Achille non sarebbe mai stato riscattato, perchè, con la cattura, non è più Achille”
Source: Golden Son
Source: Golden Son
“If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes.”
Source: Morning Star
Source: Iron Gold
“All my life, I've tamed myself to not frighten others. Sometimes it is fun to let the lion out.”
Source: Dark Age
“Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.”
Source: Morning Star
“Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”
Source: Dark Age
Source: Red Rising
“We all want to be special. It must ache to discover you are not.”
Source: Dark Age
Source: Dark Age
“If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown... so keep swimming, right?”
Source: Red Rising
Source: Iron Gold
“How do you prepare for a kick in the balls? You don't. You suck it up.”
Source: Iron Gold
“You don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through it's teeth.”
Source: Dark Age
Source: Golden Son
Source: Iron Gold
“No protection for the small-business owner. Only taxes and extortion.”
Source: Iron Gold
Source: Dark Age
Source: Dark Age
“I confess, I hope she does not hurry. It is good to be alone in the snow.”
Source: Dark Age
“It was then that I realized sensibility is torpor by a more palatable name”
Source: Dark Age
“The more blessed the creature, the less they question life”
Source: Dark Age
“More like Caesar or... what did they call them, Presidents? —a tyrant in necessity's clothing.”
Source: Red Rising
Source: Morning Star
Source: Morning Star