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“Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”

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“The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy. Pinks pleasure and serve in highColor homes. Silvers count and manipulate currency and logistics. Yellows study the medicines and sciences. Greens develop technology. Blues navigate the stars. Coppers run the beauracracy. Every Color has a purpose. Every Color props up the Golds.”

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“We all want to be special. It must ache to discover you are not.”

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“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”

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

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“I suppose that is what every man must tell himself in war... That there will be an end, and when it is done, enough of himself will remain. Enough to be a father. A brother. A lover. But we know it isn't true. Don't we Darrow? War eats the victors last.”

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Book:Iron Gold

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“How do you prepare for a kick in the balls? You don't. You suck it up.”

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“You don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through it's teeth.”

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“War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear. At the Institute, I feared men. I feared what Titus and the Jackal could do to me. You see death coming there and can at least struggle against it. Here you don't have such luxury. 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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Book:Golden Son

Source: Golden Son

“Some thrive on contention, and some on resolution.”

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“Life's a mountain, Volga. Nasty, steep, covered in ice. Try to move it, you'll go nowhere. Try to help someone else, you'll fall right down with them. Focus on your own feet, and you just might make it up and over.”

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Book:Iron Gold

Source: Iron Gold