Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Kill or be killed. Cheat or be cheated.”

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252. “He extends his left hand. His dislocated fingers look like lightning bolts. I pull them straight. He laughs with the pain, not knowing his brother’s blood is under my fingernails. I’m trying not to hyperventilate.”

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253. “But I am no Gold. I am a Red.”

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

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

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257. “The Golds dance in pairs, Obsidians in threes, Grays in dozens,” he told me. “We dance alone, because only alone do Helldivers drill. Only alone can a boy become a man.”

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258. “What did he want?” Sevro asks. “What do all politicians want?” “Prostitutes.”

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259. “Everything grand is made from a series of ugly little moments. Everything worthwhile by hours of self-doubt and days of drudgery.”

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260. “This is just a demonstration of their power. It is their power. They decide the winner. A game of merit won by birth. It keeps the hierarchy in place. It keeps us striving, but never conspiring. Yet.”

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261. “Sevro does not want to go without me. He does not understand why Cassius needs his help to mop up the remainders of Diana. I tell him the truth. “Cassius has a pouch in his boot, the one Lilath gave him. I need you to steal it.” His eyes do not judge. Not even now. There are times when I wonder what I did to earn such loyalty, then others when I try not to press my luck by looking the gift horse in the mouth. That.”

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262. “You are going to do great things, Darrow.” She never calls me Darrow. “Maybe you don’t have to do them alone?”

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263. “The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything. Why.”

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264. “I’ve never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I.”

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265. “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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266. “Nothing binds like pain shared.”

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267. “It’s amazing how quiet the world is as the arrows sail, carrying death.”

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268. “If he is treating them like Pinks, then it is because they merited no better in this little world than Pinks do in our big world.” “You’re joking.” Cassius can’t understand. “They are Golds, not Pinks. He’s a monster.”

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269. “It is our duty to embrace the scars our choices give us, to embrace and remember our mistakes, else we live believing our own myth.”

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270. “I always thought I would die before the end. I trudged on knowing I was doomed. But my friends have breathed love into me, breathed my faith back into my bones. They’ve made me want to live.”

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

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

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274. “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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275. “Chains might be made by others, but we tend them.”

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276. “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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277. “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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278. “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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279. “New’ generally means someone’s just trying to make money off something old.”

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280. “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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281. “It’s not the bark that counts, oldboy. It’s the bite.”

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282. “I’ve spend enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don’t rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt. They’d want us to live. And life’s about the now and the future, eh?”

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283. “I am ready for the enemy to come. I have more reasons to fight then they do. My armor is my love.”

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284. “I knew war was dreadful, but I did not expect to fear it. How can anyone not, when death is just a blind giant with scissors?”

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285. “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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286. “In order to rule, ours must be the study of political, psychological, and behavioral science – how desperate human beings react to one another, how packs form, how armies function, how things fall apart and why. You could learn this nowhere else but here.”

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

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288. “Farmers make culture. Nomads make war.”

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289. “Being disenfranchised is so damn tedious.”

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290. “He says a man who believes his own myth is like a drunk thinking he can dance barefoot on a razor’s edge.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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299. “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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300. “And I order you to get drunk!” I roar to my army. They look at me like I am mad. “Get drunk?” one says. “Yes!” I cut him off before he can say more. “Can you manage that? Act like fools, for once?” “We’ll try,” Milia cries. “Won’t we?”

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