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1 " Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor "
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
2 " Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution. "
3 " How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. "
4 " As we pretend to be brave, we become so. "
5 " Your boyfriend is faster than he used to be. "
6 " I feel an ironclad kinship with this man. Sevro asked why I saved him, and I could aspire to notions of valor and honor. But the deepspine reason is I desperately want him to be a friend again. I crave his approval. "
7 " They want a leader, and if the Reaper of Mars decides to come back from the dead here...you won't have an army, you'll have a tide at your heels. "
8 " My chair rolls to a stop. his voice cut short, followed by a thump and sliding sound. My wheelchair rolls forward again. I look back and see Ragnar pushing it innocently along. Sevro isn't in the hallway behind us. I frown, wondering where he went, till he bursts out of a side passage."You! Troll!" Sevro shouts. "I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop my candy!" Sevro looks at the floor of the hallway. "Wait. Where is it? Dammit, Ragnar. Where is my peanut bar? You know how many people I had to kill to get that? Six! Six!" Ragnar chews quietly above me, and though I'm probably mistaken, I think I see him smile. "
9 " [...]no quieren que el hombre continúe evolucionando.[...] Frenando el ingenio, la curiosidad, la movilidad social. "
10 " Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them. "
11 " They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring. "
12 " You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.""Fair enough. "
13 " That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recriminations and guilt, but that's only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living. "
14 " -Últimamente no me creo mucho de lo que me dice nadie.-Eso te mantendrá con vida, pero no te hará feliz. "
15 " ¿Cómo podría cualquier niño saber que la libertad se pierde en cuanto te conviertes en hombre? Las cosas empiezan a importar. A oprimirte. Te constriñen lentamente, inevitablemente, crean una jaula de inconvenientes, deberes, plazos, planes fracasados y amigos perdidos. "
16 " Sevro." I lean forward. "Your eyes..."He leans in close. "Do you like 'em?""Bloodydamn. Did you get Carved?""By the best in the business. Do you like 'em?""They're bloodydamn marvelous. Fit you like a glove."He punches his hands together. "Glad you said that. Cuz they're yours."I blanch. "What?""They're yours.""My what?""Your eyes!""My eyes...""Do you want the eyes back?" Sevro asks, suddenly worried. "I can give them back.""No!" I say. "It's just I forgot how crazy you are.""Oh." He laughs and slaps my shoulder. "Good. I thought it might be something serious. So I'm prime keeping them?""Finders keepers," I say with a shrug. "
17 " Shit escalates "
18 " Get some man-killing meat on your bones. No more of this anorexic scarecrow shit. "
19 " Shit escalates! "
20 " What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read. Honor is what you do. "