Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

by Pierce Brown

“It’s not victory that makes a man. It’s his defeats.

He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

“We all have our own tides inside. They go in. Out.” He shrugs. “Not really ours to control. The things, people, that orbit us do that, at least more than we’d like to admit.”

‘Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’ ”

you will recover from this. We are not our station in life. We are us—the sum of what we’ve done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.

“In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.

“I fear the Institute taught you the wrong lesson—that you can overcome anything if you but try. That is incorrect. In the real world, you must go along. You must cooperate and compromise. You cannot bend the worlds to your morals.”

“History is written by the victors.”