Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown

“Did his death put food on your table? Did it make any of our lives any better? Dying for a cause doesn’t do a bloodydamn thing. It just robbed us of his laughter.”

“I live for you,” I say sadly. She kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”

They do this to make us wear the guilt.

I hate them, but I hear them.

Cassius is as charismatic as the sun and, in his light, the shadow I cast looks like it knows what it’s doing.

“Don’t talk down to me,” Sevro sneers. Cassius chuckles. “Don’t piss on my foot because you only come to my knees.”

So many questions; none of them matter. They are outside the game. The game. What else is there but the game?

But in the end, don’t those who rise by poison die by poison?”

“Nothing.” “Nothing isn’t enough.” “To fix what he tried to do to me? To make it right?” She shakes her head and her hands clutch her sides. “Nothing is enough.”

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”