Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “They create goods to grant us a semblance of liberty. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.”

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452. “If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.”

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453. “With his death imminent, the worlds feel emptier. Almost as cavernous as they did when Cassius fell. One by one, the titans of my youth disappear, and freed from their shadow, I do not feel liberated. I feel bereft.”

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454. “He put his ear to Pax’s chest to listen to his heartbeat. He told me then what he felt when he declared this war within the Hives of Phobos. How he was not close enough to hear the fading beat of his father’s heart, or Eo’s. But how, in that moment, he could feel the hearts of his people beating across the darkness. How in the heartbeat of our son he could hear them all again.”

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455. “Rose petals of a thousand shades fall from the trees as Golds fight beneath them. They’re all red in the end.”

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456. “Tactus claps his hands together in laughter and draws Sevro in for an obnoxious hug. They are two very peculiar people. But I suppose snuggling in horse corpses gives a bond – makes twins of a morbid sort.”

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457. “And what you do for the people you love cannot be judged.”

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458. “He’s not a man made for affection. His face is pale and ghostly. Thirty-five and so old, so tired. A scar twists his upper lip. Gray streaks his thick hair.”

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459. “Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they’d wish to be.”

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460. “He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their scars. He is like any other petty tyrant of history. A slave to his own whims. A master of nothing but selfishness. He is the Society – a monster dripping in decadence, yet seeing none of his own hypocrisy. He views all this wealth, all this power, as his right. He is deluded. They all are.”

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461. “Was it a good dream?” I ask. “What?” “The one with me.” “No. No, it was a nightmare. One of a man from hell, lover of fire.”

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462. “But business in a crony-capitalist society is the craft of sharks.”

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463. “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.”

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464. “If you are wise and lucky and live long as me, you will learn this pain is just a drop in the sea.”

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465. “Rulers tend to dislike those who break rules.”

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466. “Everyone is so frightened of change,” I say before smiling sincerely at the broken man. “You remind me of my uncle.”

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467. “I let fear drive my hope away. I let war become me, and my men followed.”

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468. “Each time I returned to my wife, I told her that her boys died well. There’s no such thing.”

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469. “So, you’re who they call the Reaper,” Tactus drawls. He swings my blade experimentally. “Well, you just look too pretty to be much damage at all.” “Is he flirting with me?” I ask the Tamara girl. “Tactus, go away! Thank you, but now go away,” says the thin, hawkish girl.”

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

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471. “It is precarious to put so much faith in one man, but no more precarious than putting my faith in Volga. So much balances on the good intentions of dangerous people. It’s enough to give a man gray hair.”

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

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474. “She sniffs me. “Are you drunk?” She looks back at the flushed Howlers and teetering Telemanuses. “Are they all drunk?” “Shhh,” I say and hand her a flask. “You’re too sober.” Mickey is finishing the ceremony.”

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475. “But we need shelter. Me probably even more than Victra’s newborn will. Thing will probably come out with fangs and a silk cloak.”

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476. “I rise into darkness, away from the garden they watered with the blood of my friends.”

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

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479. “I don’t know if she understands what game I’m playing.”

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

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

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

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483. “I am something different. I freed the enslaved and let the broken mend themselves.”

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

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485. “I know what it is the way a child knows flying from watching a bird.”

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486. “But good men tend to die first.”

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487. “Humans are always negotiating. That’s what conversation is. Someone has something, knows something.”

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488. “I do admit, I am quite threatening.” He’s wearing a bathrobe and slippers.”

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489. “You reap what you sow!” I scream at him as he fades. All the rage I’ve felt swells in me, blinding me, and fills me with a pulsing, tangible hatred that seeps away only as Apollo’s boots deactivate and he tumbles down through the swirling storm. I.”

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490. “The old have weathered many seasons of the young.”

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491. “Never tell me the odds, just do it,” I command.”

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492. “Well.” I lean forward seriously. So do Vanno and his bedmates nearby. “If you really want to know, you should ask your mother.”

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493. “When he sees how I twirl the slingBlade in my hand, the last uninjured boy knows it’s time to surrender.”

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494. “Well, the point isn’t to kill them,” Fitchner says. “So no. Let’s not go around massacring your classmates, you mad ape.”

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495. “The Sons of Ares would drool if I became a Praetor to House Bellona.”

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496. “But despite what it portended, Julian was excited when he received the acceptance letter stamped with the ArchGovernor’s personal seal.”

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497. “We talk about anything but the things we should. Innocent and quiet, like two moths dancing around the same flame.”

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498. “Always so dramatic,” Sevro says. “What are your demands, Princess?”

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499. “Because in the end, what does all the power in all the worlds matter if your closest friends can betray you?”

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500. “An eerie feeling, a notion that devils roam the grounds instead of men. Who knows what anyone will do now that the rules are gone?”

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