Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)

by Pierce Brown

A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself.

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

“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”

the old do not remember the necessities of youth. They see only the years on our horizon to which they think we are entitled. But we are entitled only to the moment, and owe nothing to the future except that we follow our convictions.

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