199 Quotes by Pierce Brown

You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I will keep the name they granted me, and you can make it work.

Look into yourself, Darrow, and you’llrealize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things."....“See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do badthings?

Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.

Reaper, Reaper, Reaper... All deeds that last are painted in blood.

They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.

I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one

Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.

Wir kämpfen nicht für die Toten. Wir kämpfen für die Lebenden. Und für die, die noch gar nicht geboren sind. Für eine Chance, Kinder zu haben.

Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us.