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

401. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “Half the clans are already drunk when we arrive in the Common. In addition to a dancing people, we’re a drunken people. The Tinpots let us alone in that. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you’ll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.”

402. “Half the clans are already drunk when we arrive in the Common. In addition to a dancing people, we’re a drunken people. The Tinpots let us alone in that. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you’ll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “He would have been a tall boy, but he could never get enough food to put meat on his bones. His mother died next. The people of Lykos did the Fading Dirge for them – a tragic thumping of fists against chests, fading slowly, slowly, till the fists, like her heart, beat no more and all dispersed. The.”

403. “He would have been a tall boy, but he could never get enough food to put meat on his bones. His mother died next. The people of Lykos did the Fading Dirge for them – a tragic thumping of fists against chests, fading slowly, slowly, till the fists, like her heart, beat no more and all dispersed. The.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.”

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

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Pierce Brown Quote: “It is said that a life is made great by sorrow and joy.”

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

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

406. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “You are not wicked. You are not cruel. And what you do for the people you love cannot be judged.”

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

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

408. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

409. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “Everything he says is perfectly innocuous. Yet I hate him. It’s like he doesn’t think me a human; instead I’m just a chess piece and he’s waiting to move me around. No. Shove me around. He somehow forgot to be seventeen or eighteen like the rest. He is a man.”

410. “Everything he says is perfectly innocuous. Yet I hate him. It’s like he doesn’t think me a human; instead I’m just a chess piece and he’s waiting to move me around. No. Shove me around. He somehow forgot to be seventeen or eighteen like the rest. He is a man.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “They are terrible. Terribly rich. Terribly talented. And their chief virtue lies in their ability to sin. They’re prodigies at it.”

411. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “With his death imminent, the worlds feel emptier. Almost as cavernous as they did when Cassius fell. One by one, the titans of my youth disappear, and freed from their shadow, I do not feel liberated. I feel bereft.”

412. “With his death imminent, the worlds feel emptier. Almost as cavernous as they did when Cassius fell. One by one, the titans of my youth disappear, and freed from their shadow, I do not feel liberated. I feel bereft.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “This is not who I am, who I want to be. I want to be a father, a husband, a dancer.”

413. “This is not who I am, who I want to be. I want to be a father, a husband, a dancer.”

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

414. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

415. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “The greatest weapon a rebellion has is its spiritus. The spirit of change. That little seed that finds a hope in the mind and flourishes and spreads.”

416. “The greatest weapon a rebellion has is its spiritus. The spirit of change. That little seed that finds a hope in the mind and flourishes and spreads.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

417. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

418. “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.”

— Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Quote: “If you’re a fox, play the hare. If you’re the hare, play the fox.”

419. “If you’re a fox, play the hare. If you’re the hare, play the fox.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “I took his hand, he took a friend. All he has done is bite and claw for his own survival. Watching him now, so small and plain in a world of gods, it’s almost as if he’s the hero nobly struggling against a father who rejected him, against a Society that laughs at his size, his weakness, and scorns him as a cannibal even though it was they who told him to do whatever he had to do to win.”

420. “I took his hand, he took a friend. All he has done is bite and claw for his own survival. Watching him now, so small and plain in a world of gods, it’s almost as if he’s the hero nobly struggling against a father who rejected him, against a Society that laughs at his size, his weakness, and scorns him as a cannibal even though it was they who told him to do whatever he had to do to win.”

— Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Quote: “Dreamers die bad.”

421. “Dreamers die bad.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Tactus has assumed command in my absence. The man is a cruel beast, but he’s my cruel beast.”

422. “Tactus has assumed command in my absence. The man is a cruel beast, but he’s my cruel beast.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “The point of war is not to kill your enemies, but to come to an acceptable peace while losing as few people as possible.”

423. “The point of war is not to kill your enemies, but to come to an acceptable peace while losing as few people as possible.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Imagine all those unborn. If it is not me, someone else will rise. Ten years from now. Fifty. A thousand. We will break the chains, no matter the cost. You cannot stop us. We are the tide.”

424. “Imagine all those unborn. If it is not me, someone else will rise. Ten years from now. Fifty. A thousand. We will break the chains, no matter the cost. You cannot stop us. We are the tide.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Sharing a life threads more than flesh and blood together. It weaves her memories in and around and through mine.”

425. “Sharing a life threads more than flesh and blood together. It weaves her memories in and around and through mine.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “It is strange. This boy likes me. He insults me, but he likes me.”

426. “It is strange. This boy likes me. He insults me, but he likes me.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

427. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.”

428. “Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

429. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.”

430. “War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “So, you’re who they call the Reaper,” Tactus drawls. He swings my blade experimentally. “Well, you just look too pretty to be much damage at all.” “Is he flirting with me?” I ask the Tamara girl. “Tactus, go away! Thank you, but now go away,” says the thin, hawkish girl.”

431. “So, you’re who they call the Reaper,” Tactus drawls. He swings my blade experimentally. “Well, you just look too pretty to be much damage at all.” “Is he flirting with me?” I ask the Tamara girl. “Tactus, go away! Thank you, but now go away,” says the thin, hawkish girl.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

432. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “And now that her dream has spread, he wonders if she would recognize it. And he wonders too if he were to die today, would he recognize the echo of his own life? What sort of man would his son become in this world he has made? He thinks of his son’s face and how soon he will become a man. And he thinks of his Golden wife. How she stood on the landing pad, looking up at him, wondering if he’d ever return home again. More than anything, he wants this to end.”

433. “And now that her dream has spread, he wonders if she would recognize it. And he wonders too if he were to die today, would he recognize the echo of his own life? What sort of man would his son become in this world he has made? He thinks of his son’s face and how soon he will become a man. And he thinks of his Golden wife. How she stood on the landing pad, looking up at him, wondering if he’d ever return home again. More than anything, he wants this to end.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Man was born free, but... he is in chains. Chains made of duty, hunger, fear. Chains hammered to our necks by a race that we lifted up. A race that we empowered. Not to rule, not to reign, but to lead us from a world torn by war and greed. Instead, they have led us into darkness. They expect your obedience, ignore your sacrifice, and hoard the prosperity that your hands create. To hold tight to their reign, they forbid our dreams.”

434. “Man was born free, but... he is in chains. Chains made of duty, hunger, fear. Chains hammered to our necks by a race that we lifted up. A race that we empowered. Not to rule, not to reign, but to lead us from a world torn by war and greed. Instead, they have led us into darkness. They expect your obedience, ignore your sacrifice, and hoard the prosperity that your hands create. To hold tight to their reign, they forbid our dreams.”

— Pierce Brown

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

435. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “They only learn of their folly when they hear the medBots descending behind them to carry her broken body up to Olympus. She never returns. Still the Proctors do not interfere. I’m not sure why they even exist.”

436. “They only learn of their folly when they hear the medBots descending behind them to carry her broken body up to Olympus. She never returns. Still the Proctors do not interfere. I’m not sure why they even exist.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.”

437. “Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn’t. You say it’s better to die on your feet. I say it’s better to live on our knees.”

438. “You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn’t. You say it’s better to die on your feet. I say it’s better to live on our knees.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.”

439. “So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “The world is soundless. We cannot hear, but a pack of wolves does not need words to know that it is time to hunt.”

440. “The world is soundless. We cannot hear, but a pack of wolves does not need words to know that it is time to hunt.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “But we have widgets and datapads now, and we Golds have the lower Colors to do our research. We need not study chemistry or physics. We have computers and others to do that. What we must study is humanity. 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.”

441. “But we have widgets and datapads now, and we Golds have the lower Colors to do our research. We need not study chemistry or physics. We have computers and others to do that. What we must study is humanity. 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.”

— Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Quote: “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.”

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

443. “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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Pierce Brown Quote: “I want it all. And to get it, I’m willing to do anything. Even share.”

444. “I want it all. And to get it, I’m willing to do anything. Even share.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Daxo purrs, making a small hand gesture to acknowledge my presence. “You know how the game works. Concessions are as detestable, natural, and necessary in politics as flatulence in humans.”

445. “Daxo purrs, making a small hand gesture to acknowledge my presence. “You know how the game works. Concessions are as detestable, natural, and necessary in politics as flatulence in humans.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “But they shared a dream. One of a free world. Not built on corpses, but on hope. On the love that binds us, not the hate that divides. We have lost many. But we are not broken. We are not defeated. We fight on. But we do not fight for revenge for those who have died. We fight for each other. We fight for those who live. We fight for those who don’t yet live.”

446. “But they shared a dream. One of a free world. Not built on corpses, but on hope. On the love that binds us, not the hate that divides. We have lost many. But we are not broken. We are not defeated. We fight on. But we do not fight for revenge for those who have died. We fight for each other. We fight for those who live. We fight for those who don’t yet live.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad things?”

447. “See. That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad things?”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars’s atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.”

448. “I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars’s atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “In the end, I reach the goblet, but only after killing an annoying wizard and cruelly enslaving the race of elves by means ofo said wizard’s magic wand. I could have left the elves be. But they annoyed me.”

449. “In the end, I reach the goblet, but only after killing an annoying wizard and cruelly enslaving the race of elves by means ofo said wizard’s magic wand. I could have left the elves be. But they annoyed me.”

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Pierce Brown Quote: “Violence is the fool’s way out.”

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

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