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“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.”
― Red Rising
― 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.”
― Red Rising
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― 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.”
― Red Rising
― 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.”
― Red Rising
― 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.' ”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“But she could be made from air, from the ether that binds the stars in a patchwork.”
― Red Rising
― 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.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star

“Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy."
"Fair enough.”
― Morning Star
"Fair enough.”
― Morning Star

“ 'Found the sheep too easy to kill?' I ask. 'Where'd you get the weapon?'
'Born with them.' His fingernails are bloody.”
― Red Rising
'Born with them.' His fingernails are bloody.”
― 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.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“This is a trap I cannot ride away from. I guess there are those times in life. It's like staring at the ground as you fall from a height. Seeing the end coming doesn't mean you can dodge it, fix it, stop it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“Battered and bloody, we join Cassius, Lysander, and Sevro before the door leading out of the Sovereign's inner sanctum as Cassius types in the Olympic code to open the doors. He pauses to sniff the air. 'What's that smell?'
'Smells like a sewer,' I say.
Sevro stares intensely at the razors he's taken from Aja, including the one belonging to Lorn. 'I think it smells like victory.'
'Did you shit your pants?' Cassius squints at him. 'You did.'
'Sevro...' Mustang says.
'It's an involuntary muscle reaction when you're fake executed and swallow massive amounts ofhaemanthus oil,' Sevro snaps. 'You think I would do that on purpose?'
Cassius and I look at each other.
I shrug. 'Well, maybe.'
'Yeah, actually.'
He flips us the crux and makes a face, twisting his lips till it looks like he's going to explode. 'What's happening?' I ask. 'Are you... still...'
'No!”
―
'Smells like a sewer,' I say.
Sevro stares intensely at the razors he's taken from Aja, including the one belonging to Lorn. 'I think it smells like victory.'
'Did you shit your pants?' Cassius squints at him. 'You did.'
'Sevro...' Mustang says.
'It's an involuntary muscle reaction when you're fake executed and swallow massive amounts ofhaemanthus oil,' Sevro snaps. 'You think I would do that on purpose?'
Cassius and I look at each other.
I shrug. 'Well, maybe.'
'Yeah, actually.'
He flips us the crux and makes a face, twisting his lips till it looks like he's going to explode. 'What's happening?' I ask. 'Are you... still...'
'No!”
―

“That is the point of all this. To make you terrified of a world where you do not rule. Security and justice aren't given. They are made by the strong.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“...but why show a devil you know his strength. It just makes me a threat to him.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son

“I see why Demokracy is illegal. First comes yelling. Frustration. Indecision. Disagreements. Ideas.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“Pliny is a leech," I say. "A liar as much as you're an honest man."
"And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises.”
― Golden Son
"And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises.”
― Golden Son

“In the end, I reach the goblet, but only after killing an annoying wizard and cruelly enslaving the race of elves by means ofo said wizard's magic wand. I could have left the elves be. But they annoyed me.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“But the further you are away from it, the more war reads like arithmetic, and past that it reads like fiction, past that it鈥檚 just an annoying video on your info stream. How could they possibly imagine the anguish on the faces of the dead? How could the mob in the street demanding handouts ever know on a sensory level that when a human rots, it isn鈥檛 just the skin that stinks, but the intestines, the stomach, the liver?”
― Dark Age
― Dark Age

“Guardandola, capisco di essermi sbagliato. Non 猫 una distrazione. Non compromette la mia missione. Lei 猫 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 猫 innamorata delle mie bugie.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
―
―

“Without you on this journey I would have fallen apart. You鈥檙e my brother, Cassius.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
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