“Had I really forgotten? I am a child of hell, and I’ve spent too long in their heaven.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps they think I’m still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“What kind of parent would want their children to have servants?” he asks, disgusted by the idea. “The moment a child thinks… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“It’s not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“What do you live for?” I ask her suddenly. “Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“The mad cackling of the Goblin and the howls of his friends as they try to forget their children, their loves, and… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Sevro, swarmed by his daughters, makes faces at them as they eat. But when the air cracks with a sonic boom, he… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Where did you hear that song?" I ask her without sitting up. "From the HC," she says, blushing. "A little girl sang it. It's… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“Men call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“Even the cruel feel pain. And even the cruel can change. I hope this changes him. He could do so much, if only he… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“The floor is made of condensed air, so we are suspended above a mile vertical drop.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“She said she would protect us…” I whisper. “Who?” “The Sovereign…” He’s silent for a long moment. “I know it may be impossible to… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“Snorting, Sevro drops back to where the legendary Obsidian, Sefi Volarus, stands in her customary silence. He feigns an air of domesticity, but next… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“And now that her dream has spread, he wonders if she would recognize it. And he wonders too if he were to die today,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you, I think.… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“All wounds heal. Even these." "That's a lie." I tell him. I'll never be healed of Eo. That pain will last forever. "Some things… — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“New’ generally means someone’s just trying to make money off something old.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share
“WE HURTLE LIKE A black thunderbolt over a pale waste of silicate dust and sulfur dioxide frost in a starship adorned with electric dragons.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share
