199 Quotes by Pierce Brown

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.

It has been years since I've ridden a horse, and in all of human history, how many have graced the back of such a terrible prize as this? I fear disgracing this king of horses more than I do the coming violence.

It was then that I realized sensibility is torpor by a more palatable name

The more blessed the creature, the less they question life

My mother taught me how to blockade a planet with nothing but asteroids and gravity haulers." -Victra au Barca (née Victra au Julii)

You are the wolf that howls and bites. i am the mustang that nuzzles the hand People know they can work with me. With you? Hell, kill or be killed.

Together you and I... we've broken worlds. Who can do what we have done? What our men have done? Yet we put ourselves at the mercy of rats. We free them. Protect them. Die for them. And when we turn our backs, they unveil their little teeth and gnaw at us one bite at a time. And when we turn to face them, they cheer, and we pretend their gnawing hasn't made us weaker. Rats cannot even govern their own appetite. How can they govern themselves?

All my life, I've tamed myself to not frighten others. Sometimes it is fun to let the lion out.