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Yet there is some relatable quality there in those carved organics. Some weariness that lacks pretension and would make you think he’s an everyman instead of a warlord who has started a crusade that has claimed two hundred fifty million lives and counting.
“Long day,” he says.
“It would seem.”

“The killer of Octavia, Aja, and my godfather turns his eyes on me. He wields them like sledgehammers. Yet there is some relatable quality there in those carved organics. Some weariness that lacks pretension and would make you think he’s an everyman instead of a warlord who has started a crusade that has claimed two hundred fifty million lives and counting.”

“Long day,” he says.
“It would seem.”

“And end of worlds. Serpent will strangle wolf. Lion will battle lion. Darkness will battle light. Sister murder brother. Son murder father. Father murder daughter. This is what the fire told me. All I have seen has come true. As others are consumed, Sefi will rise from the ashes to bind the Obsidians, to become one with Red, to found a kingdom watched over by a gray fox. Watched over by you.”

“Fuck the Vox,” Colloway calls from his chair. “Hail Reaper.”

“Hic est Lupus, motherfucker.”

“You have not been abandoned. I will come for you. Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”


DARK AGE TAKE ME TO CHURCH

“There is no one left to hold the boy; all that was left of him is dead, and the life of the man must begin.”

“Do not fall prey to the very cannibalism that allowed the Rising to flourish. This man, this Gold, is not your enemy. The Slave King is.”


LYSANDER AUUUUGHHHHH

I really enjoy how Pierce is setting up this Outer Rim conflict. Diomedes and Dido are HOOPERS (hopefully)

Lysander chapters are definitely the highlight of this book for me.

“Now I was not sure whether I had hated him because he lied, or hated lying because he did it.”

“They're like us, aren't they? The big wolf and the little wolf. We're big Severian and little Severian." 

“The dog, which must have crawled beneath the floor when the alzabo came (I cannot say I blame him, but Triskele would not have done that)”

Severian a funny guy man

“Agia, I know about Hethor.”


NOOO

“Just as when I had first left the Citadel I had pulled up my hood so that the passersby might not observe my smiles, so now I hid my face to conceal the tears running down my cheeks.”

“You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?" 

She laughed again. “Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.”

“Even a torturer is a man, and it is not natural for a man to dress always and exclusively in that hue that is darker than black.”

Severian moving quite peculiar

WE BACK! In Thrax this time too

“I have come for you, Severian," she said. "No, you are not dreaming.”

“I have come for you, Severian," she said. "No, you are not dreaming.”

“I have missed you so," she said. "I've been so lonely without you."

“laughed to think of anyone missing me.”

“For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.”

“Then I remembered Thecla, who had often been oppressed in much the same way, and how I had read to her.
Taking out her brown book, I opened it at random.”


WOLFE U MAD MAN

“I am much older than you are. Older than you think. If there is one thing I have learned in so many voyages, it is that the dead do not rise, nor the years turn back. What has been and is gone does not come again.”

“I can see it troubles you . . . what happened today."
"I thought it went well," I said.”

Part 1 finished.

Pierce Brown keeps getting better at writing so that just means he’s getting better at showing Darrow making life altering mistakes