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101 " Bye, Felicia "
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
102 " Go on. What about her? Come on, man. You killed my brothers. I killed Fitchner. It’s already awkward. "
103 " Life without love is the worst prison of all. "
104 " If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose "
105 " And when you hang from the gallows. When the door beneath you opens, when your feet do the Devil’s Dance, then you will realize in that moment that this has all been for nothing, because there will be no one left to pull your feet. "
106 " It’s a man I would die to protect even as he dies to save the soul of this rebellion. "
107 " All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose. "
108 " I’m sorry…,” I find myself saying. “I’m so sorry…” She kisses my forehead and rocks her head against mine. She smells like rust and sweat and oil. Like home. She tells me I am her son. There is nothing to apologize for. I am safe. I am loved. The family is here. "
109 " Maybe that's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. "
110 " Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value. "
111 " Mobs are soulless things that feed on fear and momentum and prejudice. "
112 " I am Ares! I am a murderer too!...And what do we do with to murderers? "
113 " Friends are the pulse of life. "
114 " I used to think the life strands of my friends frayed around me, because mine was too strong. Now I realize that when we are wound together, we make something unbreakable. Something that lasts long after this life ends. My "
115 " Our worlds made us what we are, and all this pain we suffer is to fix the folly of those who came before, who shaped the world in their image and left us the ruin of their feast. "
116 " Ares sends his regards, motherfucker. "
117 " Brothers, sisters, till the last Woe that this has come to pass, By your grave, I shall weep For it was I who made you sleep. "
118 " Because honor still matters. Honor is what echoes." His father's words. But they are as empty on his lips as they feel in my ears. This was has taken everything from him. I see in his eyes how broken he is. how terribly hard he is trying to be his father's son. If he could, he would choose to be back by the campfire we made in the highlands of the Institute. He would return to the days of glory when life was simple, when friends seemed true. But wishing for the past doesn't clean the blood from either of our hands. "
119 " We chosen few are the fire of our people.” I beat my chest. “We are not Red, not Blue or Gold or Gray or Obsidian. We are humanity. We are the tide. And "
120 " I fear I have shrapnel in my ass. "