Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “For those who dine with war and empire, the bill always comes at the end.”

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52. “If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown,” he says, and raises his thin eyebrows. “So keep swimming, right?”

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53. “I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broken, but you will survive this pain, little one. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death.”

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54. “Stay close. Nut to butt, sir. Don’t be shy.”

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55. “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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56. “No god listens. There are only men. And what one does, another may undo. That is my only religion. That of the hand and the lever.”

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57. “I’m a sheep wearing wolves’ clothing in a pack of wolves.”

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58. “Neither time nor space can sever the strands of life between those we love, not really.”

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59. “All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.”

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60. “What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I.”

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61. “He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.”

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62. “You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither.”

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63. “Inside me, Red meets Gold.”

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64. “I am Cassius au Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, Morning Knight, and my honor remains.”

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65. “If a man cannot learn from his mistakes, then what hope is there but to kill us all at first sin?”

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66. “Time to embrace the suck, babydoll. Unpack the heathen.”

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67. “Sometimes, little one, it’s best if the worlds think you a little mad.” He winks. “Inspiring what they’ll let you get away with.”

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68. “Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”

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69. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”

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70. “Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”

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71. “I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes.”

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72. “Death is easy when you’ve already tried to find it.”

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73. “I will give Eo your love. I will make a house for you in the Vale of your fathers. It will be beside my own. Join me there when you die.” He grins. “But I am no builder. So take your time. We will wait.” I nod like I still believe in the Vale. Like I still think it waits for me and for him. “Your people will be free,” I say. “On my life, I promise this. And I will see you soon.”

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74. “Darrow, Lancer of House Augustus. Rise, there are duties for you to fill. Rise, there are honors for you to take. Rise for glory, for power, for conquest and dominion over lesser men. Rise, my son. Rise.”

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75. “In the cold prison of our minds, we are alone with our self-hatred, our doubts, and guilt. No one more than Sevro. A friend may reach through the bars and hold our hand, but they cannot open the door for us. Only the prisoner has the key. All I can do is remind him we’re waiting for him when he gets out.”

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76. “So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness. This is not how it ends.”

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77. “The man is broke, but he is not allowed to break.”

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78. “Reaper, Reaper, Reaper... All deeds that last are painted in blood.”

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79. “Someone has to dot God’s i’s.”

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80. “No. Don’t speak. It’s not your turn just because I pause.”

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81. “Sometimes it’s better to let a wheel squeak than break the cart trying to fix it.”

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82. “It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived.” -Ragnar Volarus.”

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83. “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.” She laughs. “You mock him for Cicero and then spit out Plato.”

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84. “I am not an anarchist, a communist, a fascist, a plutocrat, or even a demokrat, for that matter. My boys, don’t believe what they tell you in school. Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem. I’m a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress and the ingenuity of our species. The continuing evolution and advancement of our kind based on fair competition.”

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85. “His power is of a different breed. Where I am kinetic energy, he is potential.”

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86. “I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.”

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87. “Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. The rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”

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88. “I didn’t mind that it was always about you, Darrow. That was what burned Tactus, but not me. I’m not in love with you like Mustang. I don’t worship you like Sevro or the Howlers. I was a true friend. I was someone who saw your light and your dark and accepted both without judgement, without agenda...”

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89. “Life without love is the worst prison of all.”

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90. “Brothers, sisters, till the last Woe that this has come to pass, By your grave, I shall weep For it was I who made you sleep.”

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91. “They want me to kill him because he didn’t do well on their tests. This is a mismatch. I am Darwin’s scythe. Nature scraping away the chaff.”

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92. “Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”

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93. “Dead kids are the loose change of war.”

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94. “His eyes close. His hand trembles. “I am the star in the night sky. I am the blade in the twilight. I am the god, the glory.” His breath shudders out. He is afraid. “I am the Gold.” And.”

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95. “They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”

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96. “She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I couldn’t own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides.”

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97. “Few men truly like seeing beauty burn. But burn it does.”

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98. “Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”

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99. “You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”

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100. “What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.” Romulus thumps his chest. “Honor is what you do.”

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