Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Always negotiate with food.”

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252. “You will be hated and you will hate. You will love and be loved. You will fall and you will rise. Never will you know peace, but you will know joy.”

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253. “So this kid is what? A predestined Alexander? A Caesar? A Genghis? A Wiggin?”

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254. “What is this like for her? For a mother to see her child broken by other men? To see the pain written in scars on his skin, spoken in silences, in far-off looks. How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they’ll never be the same? For.”

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255. “Stories are the wealth of humanity!”

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256. “When the Sovereign pushed against me, I bent like Gold should, with grace, with dignity. But now she cuts at me, and beneath the grace, beneath the aplomb, her knife will strike iron. We make for Mars, and for war.”

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257. “And there’s the beauty of space. A billion paths to choose.”

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258. “He looks like a Miltonian angel falling with wrath and glory. His exoskeleton sheds its friction armor, as Lucifer might have shed the fetters of heaven, feathers of flame peeling off, fluttering behind. Then a missile slashes the sky and high-grade explosives christen him mortal once again.”

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259. “I failed the test. He’s right. It wasn’t justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.”

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260. “You’re the bloodydamn messiah the Reds have been waiting for their entire lives.”

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261. “I speak the midLingo. It’s more comfortable than that highLingo fartdust Priam jabbers on in.”

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262. “There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. The faces sparkle with fool’s gold.”

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263. “You’re of use because you’re more than a weapon. When your wife died, she didn’t just give you a vendetta. She gave you her dream. You’re its keeper. Its maker. So don’t be spitting anger and hate. You’re not fighting against them, no matter what Harmony says. You’re fighting for Eo’s dream, for your family that is still alive, your people.”

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264. “Everything grand is made from a series of ugly little moments. Everything worthwhile by hours of self-doubt and days of drudgery. All the works by people you and I admire sit atop a foundation of failures. So whatever your project, whatever your struggle, whatever your dream, keep toiling, because the world needs your skyscraper.”

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265. “Well, I do believe I am the lightning,” Cassius declares. “And you, my brooding friend, are the thunder.”

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266. “Per aspera ad astra.” “Through the thorns to the stars.” Sevro snickers. “You fancy little fart. Omnis vir lupus.” Everyone a wolf.”

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267. “For seven hundred years, we have been enslaved. Your people. My people. We have languished in the darkness. Bu there will come a day when we walk in the light. It will not come from their mercy. It will not come by fate. It will come when brave hearts rise and choose to break the chains.”

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268. “He tells us how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because their rulers forgot how their parents gained them an empire. He prattles about Muslim dynasties and European effeminacy and Chinese regionalism and American self-loathing and self-neutering. All the ancient names.”

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269. “You’re making me emotional, and I hate it.”

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270. “All the love I’ve earned and lost and still wish to live for, I let burn in me. Half.”

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271. “I try to kill him in my heart before I kill him in the flesh.”

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272. “His eyes are darker and crueler than those of the friend I remember. “This is war, boyo. Murder’s the name of the game. Don’t be sad we’re good at it.”

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273. “How sad I didn’t cherish a moment there with my son. All moments are like that sandcastle, it seems. There is no permanent happy future. There is no Vale. It all washes away.”

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274. “Bye, Felicia.” Victra spits, turning to the last Praetorian.”

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275. “Eat the fish, leave twenty percent to indicate its deliciousness did not overpower my resolve or make slaves of my taste-buds.”

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276. “Tactus is an Iron Gold. His blood is as old as the Society. They look at compassion, at reform, as a disease. He is his family. He will not change. He will not learn. He believes in power. Other Colors are not people to him. Lesser Golds are not people to him. He is bound to his fate.”

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277. “This is the future. It should not be this way for generations. My life is a lie.”

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278. “If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown... so keep swimming, right?”

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279. “She left me to give me anger, and I cannot help but hate her for a moment even though beyond that moment there is only love.”

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280. “And they’ve no chance to get back the owl standard that glitters in his muddy hands. The cook unconscious across my saddle, we ride under the starry night back to our battle-torn highlands, the three of us laughing, cheering, howling.”

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281. “The bonds that bind us together are stronger than the forces that pull us apart.”

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282. “I know magic isn’t real. I know it’s all science. But if I don’t know the science, it might as well be magic.”

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283. “My heart can’t stay here in this cage she herself fled. It must move on.”

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284. “Absent love, fear will do nicely in a pinch.”

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285. “Those you protect will not see you. They will not understand you. But you are the Gray wall between civilization and chaos. And they stand safe in the shadow you cast. Do not expect praise or love. Their ignorance is proof of the success of your sacrifice. For we who serve the state, duty must be its own reward.”

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286. “Mankind was always enslaved, they’ll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable.”

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287. “That’s how Sevro is. Betray him and you’re purged from existence.”

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288. “Whisper her name.” I do and the Pegasus unfurls like a haemanthus bud. He sets a petal in the center. It closes again. “This is your heart. Guard it with iron.”

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289. “A pastiche of eyes. But faces all gray. Not the color of metal, but the color of old ash in a campfire. Ash faces. Ash clothes. Ash lives.”

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290. “Goldbrows’ first loyalty is to Color, then family, then planet, then House. Most Houses are dominated by one or two powerful families. On Mars, the Family Augustus, the Family Bellona, and the Family Arcos influence all others.”

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291. “Come ask for one when you’re Scarred, little prince.” She looks over her shoulder. “Until then, I would advise you and the reaper to run.”

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292. “She moves across the snow in a daze to grip her twin brother’s feet. Looking up at him as if this were a dream. She whispers something and, lowering her head, she pulls down, showing him he was loved, even at the end.”

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293. “The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter.”

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294. “And with a great pull, I rip out the tongue of the Jackal.”

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295. “Anything gentle that lives long, hides its stinger well.”

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296. “THE REAPER Silent, he lies encased in mankilling metal in the belly of a starship called the Morning Star.”

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297. “A hand is a peasant’s tool. A Gold’s tool is his mind.”

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298. “Omnis vir lupus.”

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299. “All ears yearn for a voice to lead them through darkness.”

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300. “Protect the ArchGovernor!” Mustang shouts at me, voice more composed than my own, making me feel an idiot obsessed with chivalry. Of course she does not need me to save her.”

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