Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power,” I say loudly.”

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

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

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

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

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “They call her Six, meaning she’s always got your back.”

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114. “All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students – I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I’ll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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123. “Fear rides in me. Fear of so many things. Fear of letting down my friends, of losing my friends.”

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

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125. “Better to go into that world in the full glory of some passion than to fade and wither with age. Live fast. Die young, my wayward friend.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “Polemides is Greek for “child of war.”

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

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

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133. “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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134. “Manners, brother; when at the mercy of your enemies, petulance demeans your entity.”

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

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137. “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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138. “But I remember when the Gamma Helldiver, Dago, took a deep pull from his burner, turning it bright but dead in a few quick moments. He said, This is you.”

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139. “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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140. “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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141. “Don’t be so dramatic. Ass sweat never killed a soul.”

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “As a human, I am entitled only to death.”

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146. “Look into yourself, Darrow, and you’ll realize that you are a good man who will have to do bad things.”

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

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148. “Once, the worlds called Cassius the Morning Knight, protector of the Society, slayer of Ares. Then he murdered his Sovereign, my grandmother, and let the Rising tear down the very Society he swore to protect. He let Darrow destroy my world and bring chaos to the Society. I can never forgive him for that, but neither can I repay the debt I owe him. He kept Sevro au Barca from killing me.”

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

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150. “Hyrg la, Ragnar!”

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