Golden Son Quotes

“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.”
― Pierce Brown

“To prosper, your superior must prosper.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven.”
― Pierce Brown

“I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.

It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one”
― Pierce Brown

“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“This is war. Chaos. Chance. Death.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It’s not his right”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“We are not our station in life. We are us--the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Es demasiada inteligente para engañarla. Por eso estoy tan incómodo en su compañía cuando me hace preguntas, cuando investiga cosas que no puedo explicar.”
― Pierce Brown

“Guard your hubris. Remember Pax. Pride kills.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Guardandola, capisco di essermi sbagliato. Non è una distrazione. Non compromette la mia missione. Lei è il centro dell'intera faccenda. Eppure, non posso baciarla. Non adesso, quando devo spezzarle il cuore, per spezzare questo impero. Non sarebbe giusto. Io mi sono innamorato di lei, ma lei si è innamorata delle mie bugie.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Achille non sarebbe mai stato riscattato, perchè, con la cattura, non è più Achille”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“The first day I served a Gold was the greatest pleasure I felt in all my life. I can't explain it to you. It was like meeting God. Now I know that it wasn't pleasure I felt. It was the absence of pain.
That is how they train Pinks to live a life of slavery, Darrow. They raise us in the Gardens with implants in our bodies that fill our lives with pain. They call the device Cupid's kiss- the burn along the spine, the ache in the head. It never stops. Not even when you close your eyes. Not when you cry. It only stops when you obey. They take the Kiss away eventually. When we're twelve. But...you can't know what it's like, the fear that it'll come back, Darrow.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It chafes my balls”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“If your heart beats like a drum, and your leg's a little wet, it's cause the Reaper's come to collect a little debt.”
― Pierce Brown.