Red Rising Quotes

“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 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

“They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. 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

“ 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.' ”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“My chair rolls to a stop. his voice cut short, followed by a thump and sliding sound. My wheelchair rolls forward again. I look back and see Ragnar pushing it innocently along. Sevro isn't in the hallway behind us. I frown, wondering where he went, till he bursts out of a side passage.
"You! Troll!" Sevro shouts. "I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop my candy!" Sevro looks at the floor of the hallway. "Wait. Where is it? Dammit, Ragnar. Where is my peanut bar? You know how many people I had to kill to get that? Six! Six!"
Ragnar chews quietly above me, and though I'm probably mistaken, I think I see him smile.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Omnis vir lupus.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“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

“... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“ 'Found the sheep too easy to kill?' I ask. 'Where'd you get the weapon?'

'Born with them.' His fingernails are bloody.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“ 'Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god.' He smiles mischievously as he does some sketches on a digital pad. He spins it around and shows me the killer I will become. 'So why not carve you to be the god of war?' ”
― 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

“I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy. Pinks pleasure and serve in highColor homes. Silvers count and manipulate currency and logistics. Yellows study the medicines and sciences. Greens develop technology. Blues navigate the stars. Coppers run the beauracracy. Every Color has a purpose. Every Color props up the Golds.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“How many of House Ceres did you kill in your raids?" I ask. "Suck my balls," He spits bloody phlegm. I dodge. I resist kicking him there, barely.”
― Pirce Brown

“The hugeness of the Antarctic laughs at our size and self-importance, thinking how easily it could snuff out the heat in our little chests. But our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Alia turns back to us, beleaguered. Her steps are slow and measured as she comes before us. "Which would you fear more, Virginia au Augustus, a god? Or a mortal with the power of a god?" The question hangs between them, creating a rift words cannot mend. "A god cannot die. So a god has no fear. But mortal men..." She clucks her tongue behind her stained teeth. "How frightened they are that the darkness will come. How horribly they will fight to stay in the light." Her corrupt voice chills my blood.
She knows.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

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

“Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.”
― Piece Brown

“More like Caesar or... what did they call them, Presidents? —a tyrant in necessity's clothing.”
― Pierce Brown and Rik Hoskin, Red Rising

“More like Caesar or... what did they call them, Presidents? —a tyrant in necessity's clothing.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“We are the new age. The new world. And if we’re to show the way, then we better damn well make it a better one. I am Sevro au Barca. And I am no longer afraid”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“You never pretended the world wasn’t broken, even when a broken world favored you”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“I hope his pain fades in death. I did not love him till he was dead; and he should be dead, but he is still my brother. So I pray he finds peace in the vale and that I will see him again one day and we’ll embrace as brothers as he forgives me for what I did to him, because I did it for a dream, for our people.”
― Pirce Brown

“I was once told a story by Pliny, my tutor—a ghastly fellow, really. And a Politico now, so take this all with a shipload of salt. Anyway: On Earth, there was a man and his camel.” I laugh. She keeps going. “They were traveling across this grand desert full of all sorts of nasties. One day, as the man prepared camp, the camel kicked him for no reason. So the man whipped the camel. The camel’s wounds grew infected. It died and left the man stranded.”
― Pirce Brown

“I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides”
― pearce brown

“I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god... So why not carve you to be the god of war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“You can practically see that Red girl hanging in his eyes, can’t you?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age