Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

by Pierce Brown

Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?

“Fear is the torrent. The raging river. To fight it is to break and drown. But to stand astride it is to see it, feel it, and use its course for your own whims.

But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.

“The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter. I will miss your brother, Thraxa. But he isn’t gone.”