Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)

by Pierce Brown

“Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won’t be the mirror they break.”

Only humanity could grasp the stars and then let them slip through its fingers for the pettiness in its heart.

“Poor little man,” she mocks. “Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”