Golden Son Pierce Brown Quotes

#1. I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.

It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one #Quote by Pierce Brown

#2. I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#3. In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#4. It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#5. And how could someone like her, someone with so much self-worth, bare herself and throw her heart at a man who gave so little in return? #Quote by Pierce Brown

#6. 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. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#7. Your firstborn son, Claudius, was all a man could hope for - a son better and wiser than his father. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#8. You are not my son." Adrius flinches. With those few words, Augustus releases something. And the small part of Adrius that held out hope to be loved disappears. He shakes off his humanity, leaving only the Jackal. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#9. I can be a builder, not just a destroyer. Eo and Fitchner saw that when I could not. They believed in me. So whether they wait for me in the Vale or not, I feel them in my heart, I hear their echo beating across the worlds. I see them in my son, and, when he is old enough, I will take him on my knee and his mother and I will tell him of the rage of Ares, the strength of Ragnar, the honor of Cassius, the love of Sevro, the loyalty of Victra, and the dream of Eo, the girl who inspired me to live for more. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#10. When I look up, he is still dead.

This wasn't right.

I thought the Society only played games with its slaves. Wrong. Julian didn't score like I did on the tests. He wasn't as physically capable as me. So he was a sacrificial lamb. One hundred students per House and the bottom fifty are only here to be killed by the top fifty. This is just a bloodydamn test … for me. Even the Bellona Family, powerful as they are, could not protect their less capable son. And that is the point.

I hate myself.

I know they made me do this, yet it still feels like a choice. Like when I pulled Eo's legs and felt the snap of her small spine. My choice. But what other choice was there with her? With Julian? They do this to make us wear the guilt.

There's nowhere to wipe the blood, only stone and two na**d bodies. This is not who I am, who I want to be. I want to be a father, a husband, a dancer. Let me dig in the earth. Let me sing the songs of my people and leap and spin and run along the walls. I would never sing the forbidden song. I would work. I would bow. Let me wash dirt from my hands instead of blood. I want only to live with my family. We were happy enough.

Freedom costs too much.

But Eo disagreed.

Damn her. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#11. We all have nature and nurture to shape us. 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. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#12. Mankind was always enslaved, they'll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#13. A heavy silence as the first sparks of revolution are struck. Sevro comes close. "That was rousing." "Too demokratic?" I whisper. "I don't think autocratic demokracy counts." Sevro wrinkles his nose. "You did threaten to vent them into space." "Threaten? I thought I implied it rather smoothly." "Smooth as gravel, dipshit." Sevro cackles a bit too enthusiastically and slaps his leg with his mech hand, denting the metal there. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#14. She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself, and her death gave her voice power it didn't have in life. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#15. It's a man I would die to protect even as he dies to save the soul of this rebellion. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#16. The lamb card simply looked too good not to eat," I say.
"Perfectly understandable. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#17. Break the chaings. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#18. Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#19. Lykos may be gone. Eo may be silent. Mustang a world away. And the Sons on the brink of extinction. But I feel my soul trickling back into me as I realize I am finally home. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#20. Gervex's painting had a lurid and well-known literary source: it was based on Alfred de Musset's poem "Rolla," published in 1833 and 1840. The poem, a paradigm of July Monarchy romanticism, chronicles the disgrace that befalls Jacques Rolla, a son of the bourgeoisie, in the big city. The narrative of his decline - he squandered his fortune and committed suicide - is interleaved with lamentations over the moral and spiritual decadence of contemporary life. Thenineteen-year-old Rolla becomes the "most debauched man" in Paris, "where vice is the cheapest, the oldest and the most fertile in the world."

The poem tells a second story as well, that of Marie (or Maria or Marion), a pure young girl who becomes a degraded urban prostitute. Her story amplifies the poet's theme - a world in moral disarray - and provides the instrument of, and a sympathetic companion for, Rolla's climactic self-destruction. Musset is clear about his young prostitute's status: she was forced into a prostitution de la misère by economic circumstances ("what had debased her was, alas, poverty /And not love of gold"), and he frequently distinguishes her situation from that of the venal women of the courtesan rank ("Your loves are golden, lively and poetic; . . . you are not for sale at all"). He is also insistent about the tawdry circumstances in which the young woman had to practice her miserable profession ("the shameful curtains of that foul retreat," "in a hovel," "the walls of this gloom #Quote by Hollis Clayson

#21. What terrifies the Golds is simple, cruel, and as old as mankind itself. Civil war. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#22. ...power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#23. He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#24. If the need arises I've got myself a psychotic Goblin-sized fighter jet #Quote by Pierce Brown

#25. If they are monsters, we should ask ourselves who made them that way. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#26. This is the future. It should not be this way for generations. My life is a lie. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#27. My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not enough. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#28. hurtling through space at mach eight. Flak #Quote by Pierce Brown

#29. They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#30. In the real world, you must go along. You must cooperate and compromise. You cannot bend the world to your morals."
"Would you have noticed me had I not tried to? #Quote by Pierce Brown

#31. Mustang ignores her. "He said he always had his eye on me." She reaches into her pocket, pulls something out, and drops it onto the floor. "So I took one of his." Sevro #Quote by Pierce Brown

#32. So you can lure us into a trap?" Sevro asks. "Better idea. How 'bout you tell your bitch of a brother to honor his bloodydamn agreement before I take that rifle and shove it so far up your farthole you look like a skinny Pixie shish kebab? #Quote by Pierce Brown

#33. The beautiful Antonia is a thing of the past. The damage she suffered was superficially catastrophic. Left orbital bone pulverized. Nose flattened, crushed so brutally they had to pull it out of her nasal cavity with forceps. Mouth so swollen it makes a hissing sound as air goes between her shattered front teeth. Whiplash and severe concussion. The ship doctors thought she was in a ship crash until they found the imprint of House Jupiter's lightning crest in several places on her face. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#34. 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. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#35. The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will of decree" is whatever comes to pass. "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that" (James 4:15). God's "will of decree" ordained that his Son be betrayed (Luke 22:22), ridiculed (Isaiah 53:3), mocked (Luke 18:32), flogged (Matthew 20:19), forsaken (Matthew 26:31), pierced (John 19:37), and killed (Mark 9:31). But the Bible teaches us plainly that we should not betray, ridicule, mock, flog, forsake, pierce, or kill innocent people. That is God's "will of command." We do not look at the death of Jesus, clearly willed by God, and conclude that killing Jesus is good and that we should join the mockers. #Quote by John Piper

#36. Tactics wins battles. Strategy wins wars. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#37. I still remember the flush of blood in her cheeks as she danced. She was all the raw colours of life, the crude beauty of nature. I am the human concept of beauty. Gold made soft and supple in man's form. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#38. No one grasps the game, because no one knows the rules. No one follows the same set of rules. It is like life. Some think honor universal. Some think laws binding. Others know better. But in the end, don't those who rise by poison die by poison?" I shrug. "In the storybooks. In life there's no one left to poison them, often. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#39. Pride is just a shout into the wind. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#40. The only crime is if we lose. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#41. I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#42. They give me the killers of our race, the ones full of piss and napalm and vinegar. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#43. The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#44. Why is it so horrible?" I ask him. "Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?"
"Power."
"Power isn't real. It's just a word #Quote by Pierce Brown

#45. But good men tend to die first. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#46. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#47. I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.' #Quote by Christopher Golden

#48. 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. #Quote by Pierce Brown

#49. How many of you would sacrifice yourself to not kill, but merely hurt your enemy? #Quote by Pierce Brown