Pierce Brown
Quotes by Pierce Brown
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Mustang...' I rest my hand on her wrist. Despite her strength, it's frail in my hands. Frail as the other girl's was when I held her in the deepmines. I couldn't help that girl. And now I feel like I can't help this woman. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.
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The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
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My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not enough.
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We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It's not his right
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...power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.
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Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?Power.Power isn't real. It's just a word.
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Power is the crown that eats the head,—...
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Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
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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 into his house, so I might burn it down. But then his daughter takes my hand, and I feel all the lies fall heavy on my shoulders. They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.
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Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
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I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don't need him to tell me the power of words. But I smile nonetheless.
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There is no peace for great men
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Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.
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In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down
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Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It would take ages to get anything across. He taps his head. 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.
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He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
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The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.
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Freedom costs too much
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Love and war. Same coin. Different sides. I'm too wrinkled for either.Maybe war will breathe some life into your old bones.Well, I tried love last month. He leans close. Didn't work like it used to.Too honest, Lorn. I can't help but laugh.
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Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor
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