Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”

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105. “Rise so high, in mud you lie.”

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

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “Someone has to dot God’s i’s.”

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

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

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114. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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122. “Laughter spews from between my teeth. I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.”

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123. “If all lies were so kind, I’d never wish to hear the truth.”

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “Sometimes it’s better to let a wheel squeak than break the cart trying to fix it.”

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127. “For instance, if a fish has 3,453 scales on its left side and 3,453 on its right side, which side of the fish has the most scales? The outside. They call it extrapolational thinking.”

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

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

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

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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.”

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

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

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137. “Thank you, Matteo,” I say, tears in my eyes. I pick him up and hug him despite his protests. “If I live more than a week, I’ll have you to thank, my goodman.” He blushes when I set him down. “Manage your temper,” he reminds me, his small voice darkening. “Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.”

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138. “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.”

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139. “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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140. “She would have lived in peace, Darrow, but you have brought her nothing but war.”

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141. “I know death well enough to hear it gather its breath.”

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142. “He is like any other petty tyrant of history. A slave to his own whims. A master of nothing but selfishness.”

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

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145. “Be wary of tyrants: they will help you today and own you tomorrow.”

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146. “I am not here. I am no physical being. Electricity tethered to carbon. I am a pattern. And so is the world.”

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147. “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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148. “Dead kids are the loose change of war.”

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149. “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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150. “My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough.”

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