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“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“He is my favorite smell, my favorite sound, my favorite sight. He will never know how much I love him because he does not remember the day Darrow and I conceived him, or the months I carried him inside me, or the minute he came into the world, the moment he said his first word or took his first step, or made me laugh for the first time. I remember all those things, and all the things about them. Where the sun lay in the sky, how his father’s eyes sparkled, what I feared in those moments, what I hoped for his life to be. That season of life is a haze to him, but when I die and reflect on my life, I know I will still believe that season was the meaning of mine.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“I think…if love is anything, it is truth. If life is anything, it is struggle.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“If a man cannot learn from his mistakes, then what hope is there but to kill us all at first sin?”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“A friend may reach through the bars and hold our hand, but they cannot open the door for us. Only the prisoner has the key. All I can do is remind him we’re waiting for him when he gets out.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“In another life, I might have loved him. But he didn’t need a woman’s love. He needed a brother’s.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Silence is a statement, Diago. Inaction picks a side. And when those lead to personal benefit, they are complicity.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many