Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Will you accept these stains, godchild?”

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352. “Oy, boyo, you look like you slithered out of a skeleton’s rickety cooch.”

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353. “In the end, I believe I’ll enjoy war,′ he says. ‘Gotta toughen my spine a bit. Callous my hands. Bastards tell us it’s all roses and glory.’ He looks up. ‘Don’t you smell the roses, Reaper?”

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354. “My test comes after two months of training my mind with Dancer. I do not memorize. I do not even really learn when with him. Instead, his training is designed to help my mind adapt to paradigm shifts. 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. It was how I knew that I should eat the scythe card when I first met Dancer. I am very good at it.”

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

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356. “He is like any other petty tyrant of history. A slave to his own whims. A master of nothing but selfishness. He is the Society – a monster dripping in decadence, yet seeing none of his own hypocrisy. He views all this wealth, all this power, as his right. He is deluded. They all are. But I cannot cut him down from the front. No, no matter how well I fight. He is too strong.”

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357. “It’s a lonely thing carrying the body of someone dead and loved. Like a vase you know will never again hold flowers. I.”

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358. “Being disenfranchised is so damn tedious.”

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359. “The others say you are like a machine, because they think you know no fear. They’re blind. They don’t see how fear binds you.”

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360. “I hope you loved and loathed this story. I hope you read into the early morning, well past any reasonable hour, and that you come along with me for the conclusion of this little tale, and many more that are yet to be written.”

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361. “Mobs are soulless things that feed on fear and momentum and prejudice.”

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362. “It is said that a life is made great by sorrow and joy.”

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363. “New’ generally means someone’s just trying to make money off something old.”

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364. “Tell the hag we’re here for war. Not words.”

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365. “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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366. “Was it a good dream?” I ask. “What?” “The one with me.” “No. No, it was a nightmare. One of a man from hell, lover of fire.”

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367. “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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368. “The tide has risen. And I feel a deep terror in wondering exactly what it will wash away.”

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369. “He was never the brightest, not in the way they wanted. Oh, he was kind and bright with emotions – he could sense sadness or anger a klick away. But empathy is a lowColor thing.”

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370. “Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.”

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371. “You taught me once, Lorn. I’m a better man for it. But now it’s my turn to teach you. Men can change. Sometimes they have to fall. Sometimes they have to leap.”

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372. “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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373. “It has been years since I’ve ridden a horse, and in all of human history, how many have graced the back of such a terrible prize as this? I fear disgracing this king of horses more than I do the coming violence.”

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

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375. “But you don’t get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through its teeth.”

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376. “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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377. “Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence.”

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378. “I’m all that’s left of that family that could have been. A dark shadow of the man I was meant to be.”

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379. “What dread those natural-born humans must have felt to see the Conquerors falling from the sky. Man perfected, but bringing chains instead of hope.”

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380. “If you are wise and lucky and live long as me, you will learn this pain is just a drop in the sea.”

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381. “Rulers tend to dislike those who break rules.”

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

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383. “As the door closes behind him, I think on the stupidity of war. How ridiculous we must be to wage it when emotions like love run so much deeper in us than hate. By the time Kavax makes it back to me, I am ready for the enemy to come. I have more reasons to fight than they do. My armor is my love.”

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384. “You’re my friend,” he says, voice heavy with emotion. “You will always be my friend. I won’t put a dagger in your back. But I will stand up to you. I will do what is right.”

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385. “You are not wicked. You are not cruel. And what you do for the people you love cannot be judged.”

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386. “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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387. “And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”

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388. “Sarcastic ripostes are seldom clever enough to prove that they are little more than the desperate cries for validation of a petty and insecure mind.”

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389. “I take his shoulder and bring him close like he’s a brother. I know the power touch can have.”

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

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391. “I cannot be afraid. I’ve spent too long being afraid. Too long being diminished by loss. Too long being everything except what I need to be. And whether I am the Reaper, or whether it’s just another mask, it’s one I must wear, not just for them, but for myself.”

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392. “Violence is the fool’s way out.”

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393. “Mother is the spine in me. The iron.”

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394. “He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about. You cannot trust him.” The.”

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

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396. “But the single brain’s control is limited. Imagine each one of the fingers had a brain of its own that interacted with the main brain. The fingers obey, but they function independently. What could the hand do then? What could an army do? I twirl the stick along my fingers in intricate patterns. Exactly.”

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397. “I wish I knew that the eyes of his spirit looked upon his Vale. That his ancestors were waiting for him in their cool highland valley. But I know it is not so, because I know the Vale was created and cultivated by the Board of Quality Control in order to provide an important sociological prerequisite for obedience: a carrot at the end of a hard life. That very same belief that made them able to endure untold hardship in the mines has become a militant faith.”

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398. “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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399. “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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400. “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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