199 Quotes by Pierce Brown

Using the claws of others is not brave, nor is it the same as having claws.

As we pretend to be brave, we become so.

Que piense que es mi dueño. Que me reciba en su casa, porque así podré quemarla desde los cimientos.

There is no peace for great men

My brain has always been faster than my conscience.

There’s nothing like a mother’s fear.

Yet it seems like everyone just wants to follow.

It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I would have been jostled by men I'd grown up with, run across girls I'd chased and wrestled with as a child. Here, other Colors slam into me and offer not even a faint apology. This is a city, and I do not like it. I feel alone.

All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students -- I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.