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161 " If they are monsters, we should ask ourselves who made them that way. "
― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
162 " Farmers make culture. Nomads make war. "
163 " I don’t care about your rebellion. I don’t care about your dead wife. Or about finding a family or finding meaning. I want to be able to sleep without them jacking me full of chemicals, Darrow. I want to be able to dream again. I want to forget my mother’s caved-in head and her vacant eyes and her twitching fingers. I want to forget Adrius laughing. And I want to repay Antonia and Adrius for their hospitality. I want to stand above them and that piece of shit, Roque, as they weep for the end as I gouge out their eyes and pour molten gold into the sockets so they scream and writhe and spread their urine upon the floor and beg forgiveness for ever thinking they could put Victra au Julii in a gorydamn cage. "
164 " She’s an engineer of oppression, and one of the best minds of Gold. And she tried to kill Sevro. Bad play. "
165 " A pastiche of eyes. But faces all gray. Not the color of metal, but the color of old ash in a campfire. Ash faces. Ash clothes. Ash lives. "
166 " Yeah, well. Time to embrace the suck, babydoll. Unpack the heathen. "
167 " Today I feel the silent screams of a civilization that has been stepped on for hundreds of years. "
168 " She can watch other people’s opinions when she has opinions of her own, and no sooner. We’re not digital creatures. We’re flesh and blood. Better she learns that before the world finds her. "
169 " The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything. "
170 " To build we must break. I was listening.I know you can break. I need to see that you can build. I need to see what you will build. If the blood we will shed is for something. "
171 " The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything. Why do you think the Core is such a Babylon? Because it’s never been told no. "
172 " Which would you fear more, Virginia au Augustus, a god? Or a mortal with the power of a god?” The question hangs between them, creating a rift words cannot mend. “A god cannot die. So a god has no fear. But mortal men…” She clucks her tongue behind her stained teeth. “How frightened they are that the darkness will come. How horribly they will fight to stay in the light. "
173 " I am not an anarchist, a communist, a fascist, a plutocrat, or even a demokrat, for that matter. My boys, don’t believe what they tell you in school. Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem. I’m a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress and the ingenuity of our species. The continuing evolution and advancement of our kind based on fair competition. "
174 " What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I "
175 " Can do.” He bumps my fist with his and winks. “Happy diplomacy, kids.” He keeps his fist out for Mustang. “You too horsey. We’re in this shit together, eh?” She happily bumps his knuckles with her own. “Bloodydamn right. "
176 " Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.” Romulus thumps his chest. “Honor is what you do. "
177 " said it once. Now I’ll say it twice. If there’s two things in this world that can’t be killed, it’s the fungus under my sack and the Reaper of bloodydamn Mars. "
178 " Hyrg la, Ragnar! "
179 " It’s bad for business, and what’s bad for business is bad for Man. "
180 " Look where we are. In space. Above a planet we shaped. Yet we live in a Society modeled after the musings of Bronze Age pedophiles. Tossing around mythology like that bullshit wasn’t made up around a campfire by an Attican farmer depressed that his life was nasty, brutish, and short. "