Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither.”

— Pierce Brown

52. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

53. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

54. “In a storm, you don’t tie two boats together. They’ll drag each other down.”

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

— Pierce Brown

56. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

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

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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. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

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

— Pierce Brown

61. “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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62. “She’s an engineer of oppression, and one of the best minds of Gold. And she tried to kill Sevro. Bad play.”

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63. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

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

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65. “Someone has to dot God’s i’s.”

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66. “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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67. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

68. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

69. “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power,” I say loudly.”

— Pierce Brown

70. “Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.”

— Pierce Brown

71. “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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72. “When I looked up at my father as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I’m tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before.”

— Pierce Brown

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

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

— Pierce Brown

75. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

76. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “Life without love is the worst prison of all.”

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

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82. “We’re all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us.”

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83. “Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.”

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

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85. “Tactics wins battles. Strategy wins wars.”

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86. “The dead can always hear us, my love. Why else do you think we sing? We want them to know that even though they are gone, we can still find joy.”

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87. “He’s drunk, sure; but functioning alcoholics are a gift from the gods. They’re never quite out of the game.”

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88. “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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89. “There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means “blood blossom.”

— Pierce Brown

90. “What a beautiful mess we could have made of each other.”

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91. “There is evil in us, as there is good. But we do not regret our good as we do our evil. So we know what we are, my daughter. We know what we are.”

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92. “Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.”

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93. “Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”

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94. “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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95. “I’ll be Odysseus. You be Achilles.” “Achilles dies in the end.” “Then learn from his mistakes.”

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96. “Polemides is Greek for “child of war.”

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

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98. “Woe to those who cross my shadow.”

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99. “Hyrg la, Ragnar!”

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100. “You cannot stop this. The reason I tell you all this is to disabuse you of that delusion of grandeur. You are small, as am I. But you can be a part of something, Mr. Horn. A part of the solution to this dark age.”

— Pierce Brown