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21 " Well, here I am, you deviant bitch. Here I bloody am. The motherfucking consequence. "
― Pierce Brown , Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)
22 " I no longer trust stillness. Stillness is the enemy taking careful aim. "
23 " The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death. "
24 " A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself. "
25 " The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter. "
26 " I’ll never get used to seeing the fear Sevro wakes in people. Deep down they know Darrow is operating on a framework of logic. No one, not even me, believes that Sevro is completely sane. "
27 " Until then, endure, my love. Endure. "
28 " Get him inside somewhere and keep that man alive.” “Man?” Screwface laughs. “Hic est Lupus, motherfucker. "
29 " Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder? "
30 " One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive. "
31 " But that is the noble lie of demokracy, isn’t it? The belief in humanity, even though humanity is a screaming, selfish mob. I love humans, truly. But humanity …” She shivers. "
32 " I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light. "
33 " There’s never a right call, just people who make the hard ones. "
34 " I hope you loved and loathed this story. I hope you read into the early morning, well past any reasonable hour, and that you come along with me for the conclusion of this little tale, and many more that are yet to be written. "
35 " Matter, how tiny my share Time, how brief my allotment Fate, how small my roll to play Self, all that can be mastered "
36 " This is the Noble Lie. Every frayed nerve, every quaking cell, screams in horror, urging me to crawl out of the tube, to escape this insanity. Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder? My first toy was a wooden sword. Adults think it adorable. "
37 " The man is broke, but he is not allowed to break. "
38 " I continue to exists, only because with existence there is still hope. "
39 " But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends. "
40 " Forget malice or anger. All should beware the wrath of an offended soul. "