Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “No. Don’t speak. It’s not your turn just because I pause.”

— Pierce Brown

102. “Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you push them. They will run. And run. And run. Until they don’t. Until their hearts explode.”

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103. “I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother of Darrow, Morning Knight of the Solar Republic, and my honor remains.”

— Pierce Brown

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

— Pierce Brown

105. “Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war.”

— Pierce Brown

106. “The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute.”

— Pierce Brown

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

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108. “Inside me, Red meets Gold.”

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109. “Rise so high, in mud you lie.”

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110. “But that is the noble lie of demokracy, isn’t it? The belief in humanity, even though humanity is a screaming, selfish mob.”

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111. “You! Troll!” Sevro shouts. “I’m a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop by candy!”

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112. “It’s gonna be a hell of a day. A hell of a day.”

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113. “Silenius walked his stiletto. I’ve no doubt we’ll walk ours.” “What makes you so confident?” “Well, for starters, we have smaller feet.”

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114. “They took Mustang,” I tell my pack. They look on silently. The Jackal no longer matters. “So now we take Olympus.” The smiles they give one another are as chilling as the snow. Sevro cackles.”

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115. “They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. Or perhaps they think I’m still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation. We.”

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

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117. “Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”

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121. “We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”

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122. “I do not answer to a scarless Pixie whelp. I am a Peerless Scarred. ArchPrimus of the 542nd class of the Institute of Mars. I answer to the ArchGovernor alone.”

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123. “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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124. “Dead kids are the loose change of war.”

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125. “No animal but man throws themselves willingly into the flames, Copper. Relish the sight. You’ll not see it again.”

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126. “El fuego de la victoria me arde en las venas.”

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127. “All men are not created equal,” he declares. Tall, imperious, an eagle of a man. “The weak have deceived you. They would say the meek should inherit the Earth. That the strong should nurture the gentle. This is the Noble Lie of Demokracy. The cancer that poisoned mankind.”

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128. “Love and war. Same coin. Different sides. I’m too wrinkled for either.” “Maybe war will breathe some life into your old bones.” “Well, I tried love last month.” He leans close. “Didn’t work like it used to.”

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129. “Pride is just a shout into the wind.”

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130. “You know what they say. Hell hath no fury like a woman packing a railgun.”

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131. “Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun.”

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132. “Amazing the power you have when you’re bloody up to the sleeves and none of it is your own.”

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

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134. “They call her Six, meaning she’s always got your back.”

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135. “Perhaps one day I’ll have two hearts to give.”

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136. “Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death.”

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137. “Seeing the joy in my wife’s face, I am witnessing another miracle. One, for a long time, I believed I would never see again. Love so potent, so whole and true, that it hurts, because even when you convince yourself that it will last forever, you know enough of the world to see how things break and fade, but somehow, some way, you believe this love will be the exception. That it alone will last.”

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

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139. “And when you hang from the gallows. When the door beneath you opens, when your feet do the Devil’s Dance, then you will realize in that moment that this has all been for nothing, because there will be no one left to pull your feet.”

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140. “Nothing has ever been enough for you, nor will it be. You’re trying to matter to yourself. Because you’re broken inside. Because you hate what you are.”

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141. “Before I sleep, I drink a tonic laden with processing enhancers and speed-listen to The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly’s Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I wake knowing three thousand years of literature and legal code and history.”

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142. “Some men have threads of life so strong that they fray and snap those around them.”

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143. “Don’t be so dramatic. Ass sweat never killed a soul.”

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144. “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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145. “As a human, I am entitled only to death.”

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146. “If the need arises I’ve got myself a psychotic Goblin-sized fighter jet.”

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147. “I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.”

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148. “As a mob they were a single organism. In fear, they divide. In death, they become lonely as I weave them into my twitching meat carpet.”

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149. “A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.”

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150. “I now need, as I’ll need at the head of a rebellion, followers, not slaves. Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

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