Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
He disagrees with the rules, but he follows them. It is possible. I can do the same until I have power enough to change them.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
I am the spark that will set the worlds afire. I am the hammer that cracks the chains.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
A Copper woman walks along her wider path; her favorite programs play wherever she walks, unless she strides beside a Gold, in which case all the HCs go quiet.
Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
“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 (Red Rising Series Book 1)
“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains.