Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)

by Pierce Brown

What good is being smarter than everyone if no one listens? Is this how my father felt? My brother?

Is evil born of pure frustration?

It’s bright and blue out and pretty enough for me to be pissed at the world for putting such a lovely face on such a shit-infested day.

He’s drunk, sure; but functioning alcoholics are a gift from the gods. They’re never quite out of the game.

Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun.”

She would burn the worlds so long as the ashes kneel.”