199 Quotes by Pierce Brown

Don't you find it peculiar? The human conviction that we are the heirs of history instead of paragraphs that are almost over.

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.

I hope his pain fades in death. I did not love him till he was dead; and he should be dead, but he is still my brother. So I pray he finds peace in the vale and that I will see him again one day and we'll embrace as brothers as he forgives me for what I did to him, because I did it for a dream, for our people.

Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It’s amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes.

Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.

Rather a drink be my master than a man.