Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I hope you loved and loathed this story. I hope you read into the early morning, well past any reasonable hour, and that you come along with me for the conclusion of this little tale, and many more that are yet to be written.”

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452. “It is said that a life is made great by sorrow and joy.”

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453. “Five hundred years.” I shake my head. “This is our bloodydamn planet.” “Through sweat and toil it was made so,” he agrees. “Then what will it take to take it back?” “Blood.” Dancer smiles at me like a township alleycat. There’s a beast behind this man’s fatherly smiles. Eo was right. It comes to violence.”

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454. “This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty.”

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455. “And what can bond sinners but their sins? None of my people would understand. Secrets are weight.”

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456. “Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.”

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457. “They see my slender hands and naked face and believe me weak. Dangerous game, judging a blade by its scabbard.”

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458. “LUX EX TENEBRIS. Out of darkness, light.”

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459. “When falls the Rain, be brave. Be brave.”

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460. “Yet I’m a Red acting like a Gold. No man is bound to his fate. I can change him. I know I can. But how?”

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461. “You’re the same,” I say. “Lonely. You’re all japes and snide comments, just like Sevro, but it’s just a mask.”

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462. “He would have been a tall boy, but he could never get enough food to put meat on his bones. His mother died next. The people of Lykos did the Fading Dirge for them – a tragic thumping of fists against chests, fading slowly, slowly, till the fists, like her heart, beat no more and all dispersed. The.”

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463. “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.”

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464. “Daughter, you are my heart,” he replies. “I trust you like I trust the vaulting sky. I look up, and there it is. Different shades, perhaps, but always there. Always true.”

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465. “There will dawn a day when these hostile hours, these days of hatred and violence, seem the faintest of memories, but dark and steep and long is the road up out of hell. So do not tire, do not despair, do not abandon your brethren, and do not forget that through this darkness we and we alone carry the light of freedom. We must defend it with every cell in our bodies. If not now, when? If not us, who?”

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466. “The key to learning, to power, to having the final say in everything, is observation. By all means, be a storm inside, but save your movement and wind till you know your purpose.”

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467. “And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”

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468. “It is to remember how few people you know. How many do not know you. How many will soon forget you. How many praise you today to offer contempt tomorrow. Permanence of fame, power, dominion of the individual, are illusions. All that will be measured, all that will last, is your mastery of yourself.”

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469. “I take his shoulder and bring him close like he’s a brother. I know the power touch can have.”

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470. “A man may run, but none has escaped his fate. Yet.”

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471. “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Nor the furious winter’s rages, Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must As chimney sweepers come to dust.”

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472. “She turns to the piano and begins a song, slow, mournful, that sounds like the wind in my dreams. As her fingers drift over the keys, the song wakes something inside me besides grief – a shadow, shadow of a shadow in the library of my mind, something I never knew forgotten.”

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473. “Anyway, all he’s partial to sending is holograms of uniquely perverted unicorns and video clips of him reading puns. Pluto, if anything, has made him stranger.”

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474. “To prosper, your superior must prosper.”

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475. “Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.”

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476. “I fear I have shrapnel in my ass.”

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477. “But no matter my value, I am marred. Someone had me, then threw me away. Who would want such a used thing?”

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478. “The beautiful sum of all human enterprise? It’s been dead and rotting for hundreds of years, and those who fight over it are but vultures and maggots.”

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479. “I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”

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480. “It is a humbling thing knowing someone cannot live without you, knowing that though they’ve betrayed you, they wish for nothing but absolution.”

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481. “The night is grim and humid as air in a smoker’s mouth.”

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482. “So what? We’re supposed to whip Titus? Kill him? That would be Law.” “Would it? Or would it just be vengeance?” “You’re the poet. You figure it out.” I kick a stone off the ramparts.”

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483. “This warm peace is an illusion, I know. My time in it is fleeting. It will not last, not the night, not the celebration, not the hunt, not my friendship.”

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484. “She nudges him. “Oh, you devil. No wonder you interviewed for the Rage Knight post. Such a scoundrel!”

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485. “So whatever strategy we have is based in acquiring information. Funny thing is, only one tribe has a silvershit’s idea what is going on. And it’s not ours. It’s not Antonia’s. And it sure as hell isn’t Titus’s. It’s Sevro’s, and I’m nearly certain he’s the only member in that tribe, unless he’s adopted wolves by now.”

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486. “Pandora was a fiction written by men to blame the miseries of the world on women. I am not a fiction.”

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487. “I live for you,” I say sadly. She kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”

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488. “War isn’t real. It’s just a three-letter word for other people that they see in the digital newsfeeds.”

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489. “I continue to exists, only because with existence there is still hope.”

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490. “In the end, I believe I’ll enjoy war,′ he says. ‘Gotta toughen my spine a bit. Callous my hands. Bastards tell us it’s all roses and glory.’ He looks up. ‘Don’t you smell the roses, Reaper?”

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

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492. “I learn from him around the campfire that he and the Howlers, Thistle, Screwface, Clown, Weed, and Pebble – the dregs of my old House – stayed no longer than a day after I disappeared.”

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493. “I sit back on my heels watching him, falling in love with my son all over again. His mind is more curious than mine. More delighted by the nuances of knowledge. An overwhelming desire to protect him rises up in me.”

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494. “Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming.”

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495. “After a while of watching me, he stands and punches me in the face. “If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie.” I kick him in the shin. He limps away, laughing like a drunk Uncle Narol. I’m not sent home.”

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496. “I forget to breathe. Then I gasp. My body shivers. Hugs the sword. I smell Cassius’s neck. He’s close. Close as when he used to cup my head and call me brother.”

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497. “Others will have lost friends, and so the House will devour itself. The Society did this on purpose; they want chaos. It will be our second test. Tribal strife.”

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498. “My brain has always been faster than my conscience.”

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499. “They’re all smart enough to have figured out their parts even if they don’t know the play.”

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500. “But we did before!” Titus protests. “What is wrong with you?” Fitchner asks. “The Passage was where the culling is done. It’s no longer survival of the fittest, you mad, stupid, colossal sack of muscle. What would be the point if we now had the fittest just murder each other till only a few are left? There are new tests to pass now.”

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