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“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Elend: I kind of lost track of timeâ€�
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Before I sleep, I drink a tonic laden with processing enhancers and speed-listen to The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly’s Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I wake knowing three thousand years of literature and legal code and history.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Nothing binds like pain shared.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

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

“Liars make the best promises.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“In what world should you be afraid of me?”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Some men have threads of life so strong that they fray and snap those around them. Enough friends have paid for my war. This one's on me.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Goodbye, Cassius. Expect me.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“How do sheep kill a lion ? By drowning him in blood.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“I will give Eo your love. I will make a house for you in the Vale of your fathers. It will be beside my own. Join me there when you die.â€� He grins. “But I am no builder. So take your time. We will wait.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“All that we have is that shout into the wind--how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.

--Karnus Au Bellona”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes. The Reaper has come. And he's brought hell with him.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
― Turkish Proverbs