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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4) QUOTES

Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4) QUOTES

1 " The die is cast. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

2 " Life's a mountain, Volga. Nasty, steep, covered in ice. Try to move it, you'll go nowhere. Try to help someone else, you'll fall right down with them. Focus on your own feet, and you just might make it up and over. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

3 " History is a wheel. And all mobs are the same. Full of small men with big appetites. Only way they grow is by eating men like us. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

4 " No protection for the small-business owner. Only taxes and extortion. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

5 " It is my duty as a free man to read so I'm not blind being lead around by my nose "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

6 " She turns to the piano and begins a song, slow, mournful, that sounds like the wind in my dreams. As her fingers drift over the keys, the song wakes something inside me besides grief - a shadow, shadow of a shadow in the library of my mind, something I never knew forgotten. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

7 " If you attempt to escape, or if you defect to the Syndicate, know this as a certain fact: your friend will die. And be it on Mars, Luna, Earth, the Rim, or Venus itself, one night you will wake in the middle of the dark and find a shadow standing over you. If you are lucky, it will be me. If you are unlucky, it will be Sevro or my husband, and you will die shitting yourself in a foreign bed. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

8 " Assassination is probably the only enterprise where private industry is not more efficient "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

9 " I nurse the small fish on my plate. Cassius is already finished with his, always a man of appetites. I'm more practiced than he in the art of self-deprivation at the dinner table, doesn't feel so long ago that I was a knobby-kneed boy sitting at my grandmother's dinner table when she turned her long neck to me and peered down that Peregrine nose, and in a kindly manner, inquired if I intend to sleep out in the gutter instead of in my bed chamber, because by virtue of the fact that I'd eaten three whole tarts, I'd clearly abdicated being a man in favor of being a little pig. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

10 " How do you prepare for a kick in the balls? You don't. You suck it up. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

11 " I suppose that is what every man must tell himself in war... That there will be an end, and when it is done, enough of himself will remain. Enough to be a father. A brother. A lover. But we know it isn't true. Don't we Darrow? War eats the victors last. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

12 " She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I couldn't own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

13 " The little fantasies of murder are what keep servants sane. They tell themselves they allow me my power. And if ever I become too dreadful, they will do me in and maybe take over. But of course they never do. They procrastinate their vengeance because deep down, they are afraid not just of me, but like all people they fear their own fantasies. Easier to cherish them and keep them inside where they are in control. Possible. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

14 " [..]me pregunto si ser un mal padre era eso: encontrar siempre un motivo para no estar, un motivo que, sin importar lo virtuoso o brillante que sea a ojos de un niño, parecerá vacío y falso en los recuerdos del hombre en el que pronto se convertirá. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

15 " I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broken, but you will survive this pain, little one. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

16 " I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

17 " A new wound can take a body. Opening an old one can claim a soul. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

18 " The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

19 " 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. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

20 " Sometimes, little one, it’s best if the worlds think you a little mad. "

― Pierce Brown , Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)