Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown

“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.

On Mars there is not much gravity, so you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

😭😭😭

“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,” he says.

Oh, how well my rulers lied.

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”

“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?”