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41 " I’m a bloodydamn Helldiver with an army of giant, mildly psychotic women behind me and a fleet of state-of-the-art warships crewed by pissed-off pirates, engineers, techs, and former slaves. "
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
42 " It takes more to hope than to remember. "
43 " How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they’ll never be the same? "
44 " This is always how the story would end,” he says to me. “Not with your screams. Not with your rage. But with your silence. "
45 " Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living. "
46 " I am not alone. I am not his victim. So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness. "
47 " If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes. The Reaper has come. And he's brought hell with him. "
48 " I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. 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. "
49 " I will give Eo your love. I will make a house for you in the Vale of your fathers. It will be beside my own. Join me there when you die.” He grins. “But I am no builder. So take your time. We will wait. "
50 " Tidings! It’s Uncle Sevro and the Moderately Friendly Giant. "
51 " 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. "
52 " All that we have is that shout into the wind--how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.--Karnus Au Bellona "
53 " I’m going to kill you, Aja! I’m going to kill you in your face! "
54 " Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem. "
55 " I always thought I would die before the end. I trudged on knowing I was doomed. But my friends have breathed love into me, breathed my faith back into my bones. They've made me want to live. "
56 " In his eyes I glimpse the loneliness, the longing for a life that should have been, and the glimmer of the man he wants to be underneath the man he thinks he has to be. "
57 " Life’s not just a matter of breathing, it’s a matter of being. "
58 " I know death well enough to hear it gather its breath. "
59 " Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men. "
60 " Death begets death begets death. "