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121 " You’re bleeding! Darrow! You’re bleeding!” “I know.” “Where is your hand? You’re missing a fucking hand!” “I know!” “Bloodydamn. "
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
122 " It’s a lonely thing carrying the body of someone dead and loved. Like a vase you know will never again hold flowers. I "
123 " I one time tripped on that shit with Cassius for a week on the Thermic.” She catches my look. “Well, it was before I met you. And have you ever seen him with his shirt off? Don’t tell Sevro, by the way. "
124 " Suffering isn't real to them. War isn't real. It's just a three-letter word for other people that they see in the digital newsfeeds. Just a stream of uncomfortable images they skip past. A whole business of weapons and arms and ships and hierarchies they don't even notice, all to shield these fools from the true agony of what it means to be human. "
125 " I’ve never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I "
126 " 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 friends have filled the hollow carved into me by my wife's death. They've made me whole again. "
127 " Was still a shit thing of me to say." He raps his knuckles on the ground. "I'm always saying shit things.""I'm glad you said it.""Why?""Because we've both forgotten we didn't get here on our own. You and I should be able to say anything to each other. That's how this works. It's how we work. We don't walk on eggshells. We talk to each other. Even if we say shit that's hard to hear. "
128 " 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. And "
129 " His laughter stitches more of me together. Bit by bit, I feel like my friends are coming back to me. Or maybe I’m coming back to them. Suppose "
130 " Nothing has ever been enough for you, nor will it be. You're trying to matter to yourself. Because you're broken inside. Because you hate what you are. "
131 " He needed a light. And he made it. Love was his shout into the wind. Same "
132 " We are the new age. The new world. And if we’re to show the way, then we better damn well make it a better one. I am Sevro au Barca. And I am no longer afraid. "
133 " But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction. "
134 " This is war. And victory is the only nobility. "
135 " Her world is alien to the horrors I know. All the child sees is love. "
136 " Everything grand is made from a series of ugly little moments. "
137 " Tell the hag we’re here for war. Not words. "
138 " My father for teaching me the grace of power unused, and mother for teaching me the joy of power used well. "
139 " I’m not sure when I lost my faith. I don’t think it’s something that just happens. Maybe I’ve been worn down bit by bit, pretending to believe in the Vale because it’s easier than the alternative. I "
140 " justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And "