Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”

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152. “Have we arrived?” “Just.” “Verdict?” “My goodman, do I look like your valet?” “No. She was much fairer. With better bedside manner.” “Adorable, pretending you just had one.” I raise an eyebrow. “You should talk, prince of Mars.” Cassius au Bellona grunts.”

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153. “I learn more when I make mistakes, so long as they don’t kill me.”

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154. “That’s what Society does – spread the blame so there is no villain, so it’s futile to even begin to find a villain, to find justice. It’s just machinery. Processes.”

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155. “I suppose that is what every man must tell himself in war.” His voice rasps and he sucks again on the water tube. “That there will be an end, and when it is done, enough of himself will remain. Enough to be a father. A brother. A lover. But we know it isn’t true. Don’t we, Darrow? War eats the victors last.”

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156. “Everything she is dwells behind her eyes. She has her father’s mind. Her mother’s face. And a distant, foreboding sort of intelligence that can give you wings or crush you to the earth.”

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157. “He’s not really a Goblin. He’s actually very sweet.”

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158. “That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recriminations and guilt, but that’s only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”

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159. “There’s nothing worse for a soldier to imagine – that there will be no home to return to once the violence is over, no way to become the men we want to be. Instead, we’re trapped in these violent guises, guises we only ever had the courage to don because of how much we love our home. Is this all we’ll ever be?”

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160. “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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161. “What kind of a parent would want their children to have servants? The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything.”

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162. “He disagrees with the rules, but he follows them. It is possible. I can do the same until I have power enough to change them.”

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163. “This is the Noble Lie. Every frayed nerve, every quaking cell, screams in horror, urging me to crawl out of the tube, to escape this insanity. Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder? My first toy was a wooden sword. Adults think it adorable.”

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164. “I hate this process. All it is is a confirmation of the superiority of the Golds. It takes all this to make me their physical equal. No wonder we serve them. It.”

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165. “Harmony and I speak very little to one another, but there is a subtle shift in our relationship, some sort of primal understanding that we are the same sort of creature.”

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166. “You’re acting like you share a secret language all of a sudden.” “Isn’t that always the case with those who’ve read the same books?”

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167. “You tell anyone I cried, I’ll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.”

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168. “There are things you know, but when revealed to be known by others can make the world shine in a peculiar way.”

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169. “How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.”

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170. “She listens because she’s heard enough noise to know that truth, if it ever appears, creeps in on quiet little feet.”

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171. “I’m not sure when I lost my faith. I don’t think it’s something that just happens. Maybe I’ve been worn down bit by bit, pretending to believe in the Vale because it’s easier than the alternative. I.”

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172. “I admire one to my left, the bronze sun is behind him as he falls, silhouetting him, immortalizing him in that singular moment – one I know I shall never forget – so that he looks like a Miltonian angel falling with wrath and glory.”

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173. “Imagine there was a table covered with fleas,” he explains. “The fleas would jump and jump to heights unknown. Then a man came along and upturned a glass jar over the fleas. The fleas jumped and hit the top of the jar and could go no farther. Then the man removed the jar and yet the fleas did not jump higher than they had grown accustomed, because they believed there to still be a glass ceiling.”

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

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175. “Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men.”

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176. “This race – what a beautiful monster. They carry all of humanity’s strengths, except one. Empathy.”

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177. “A new wound can take a body. Opening an old one can claim a soul.”

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178. “If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie.” I kick him in the shin.”

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179. “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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180. “For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”

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181. “I am not alone. I am not his victim. So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness.”

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

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183. “This hurts so much. Eo. I miss her. I miss home. What was her second gift? I never found out. Her sister never told me.”

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

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

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186. “I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There’s something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.”

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187. “I can’t hate him any more than I can hate myself. Maybe that isn’t forgiveness, but it’s all I have to give.”

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188. “They want a leader, and if the Reaper of Mars decides to come back from the dead here... you won’t have an army, you’ll have a tide at your heels.”

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189. “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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190. “He has to play my game!” Sevro says. “Shithead isn’t getting out till he plays nice. I’ll give him a riddle instead. What do I have in my pocket?”

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191. “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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192. “They are terrible. Terribly rich. Terribly talented. And their chief virtue lies in their ability to sin. They’re prodigies at it.”

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193. “I used to think the life strands of my friends frayed around me, because mine was too strong. Now I realize that when we are wound together, we make something unbreakable. Something that lasts long after this life ends. My.”

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “It’s not victory that makes a man. It’s his defeats.”

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197. “Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.”

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198. “We chosen few are the fire of our people.” I beat my chest. “We are not Red, not Blue or Gold or Gray or Obsidian. We are humanity. We are the tide. And.”

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199. “I put him and Victra in the west wing so we can actually get some sleep. Last time, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking a coyote was caught in the air recycler. I swear, at the pace they’re going they’ll be able to single-handedly populate Pluto in a few years.”

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200. “The hangover of regret comes hard and fast. The anger floods out. It wasn’t just memories Z protected me from. It was always myself. Always the overcompensating pride of a street dog who can’t bear to be laughed at, so he buys nice suits, drains his account on fashionable flats, yaps at monsters, gambles with people who can afford to lose.”

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