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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5) QUOTES

Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5) QUOTES

1 " During war, the laws are silent. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

2 " It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

3 " All my life, I've tamed myself to not frighten others. Sometimes it is fun to let the lion out. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

4 " There will dawn a day when these hostile hours, these days of hatred and violence, seem the faintest of memories, but dark and steep and long is the road up out of hell. So do not tire, do not despair, do not abandon your brethren, and do not forget that through this darkness we and we alone carry the light of freedom. We must defend it with every cell in our bodies. If not now, when? If not us, who? "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

5 " Together you and I... we've broken worlds. Who can do what we have done? What our men have done? Yet we put ourselves at the mercy of rats. We free them. Protect them. Die for them. And when we turn our backs, they unveil their little teeth and gnaw at us one bite at a time. And when we turn to face them, they cheer, and we pretend their gnawing hasn't made us weaker. Rats cannot even govern their own appetite. How can they govern themselves? "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

6 " We all want to be special. It must ache to discover you are not. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

7 " Matter, how tiny my share.
Time, how brief my allotment.
Fate, how small my roll to play.
Self, All that can be mastered. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

8 " I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

9 " I confess, I hope she does not hurry. It is good to be alone in the snow. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

10 " It was then that I realized sensibility is torpor by a more palatable name "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

11 " The more blessed the creature, the less they question life "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

12 " Hope is an opiate, not a plan. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

13 " Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won't be the mirror they break. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

14 " You don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through it's teeth. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

15 " A man may run, but none has escaped his fate. Yet. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

16 " I've spend enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don't rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt. They'd want us to live. And life's about the now and the future, eh? "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

17 " The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness. As a human, you are entitled only to death. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

18 " You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

19 " It has been years since I've ridden a horse, and in all of human history, how many have graced the back of such a terrible prize as this? I fear disgracing this king of horses more than I do the coming violence. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

20 " Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains. "

― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)