Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)

by Pierce Brown

Inside me there is a coward who fears discomfort. That coward will offer solace in the form of excuses. But it is the coward who grooms a man for his defeats. The coward who makes him accept them because he is accustomed to finding a good reason to quit. The coward inside can only be killed one way.

“To those who wrote that we might read, to those who fell so we might walk, to those who came before so we might come after, gratitude.”

Does no mercy go unpunished?

“Bequeath them hell, of course.”

Baller

“To the engines, the reactor, rapid winds may they devise. To our hearts, to our hands, toward deeds brave and true may they rise. To the Republic, to Mars, for hope and liberty ever may they stride.” He thinks for a moment. “To our Sovereign, a lion Gold but wise as Minerva gray-eyed.”