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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Love and war are two different battlefields.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“My love, my love
Remember the cries
When winter died for spring skies
They roared and roared
But we grabbed our seed
And sowed a song
Against their greed

And
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper swing, the reaper swing
the reaper swing
Down in the vale
Hear the reaper sing
A tale of winter done

My son, my son
Remember the chains
When gold ruled with iron reins
We roared and roared
And twisted and screamed
For ours, a vale
of better dreams”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Break the chains, my love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Oh, Vixus," I say with a sigh, keeping the tremble of anger and fear out of my voice. "Vixus, Vixus, Vixus. There are no boys like me.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I learn more when I make mistakes, so long as they don’t kill me.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I will keep the name they granted me, and you can make it work.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I do not understand, but I will not let her die knowing anything but my love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Or perhaps they think I’m still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students -- I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Speak and they will listen," she urges. "It is that bloody simple. All ears yearn for a voice to lead them through darkness.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Life is the most effective school ever created.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Always negotiate with food.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“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

“Eo didn't deserve to die a slave to the Society. And despite her Color, Mustang doesn't deserve any sort of bridle.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself. and her death gave her voice power it didn't have in life.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising