“... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I see why Demokracy is illegal. First comes yelling. Frustration. Indecision. Disagreements. Ideas.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“ 'Found the sheep too easy to kill?' I ask. 'Where'd you get the weapon?' 'Born with them.' His fingernails are bloody.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“But she could be made from air, from the ether that binds the stars in a patchwork.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow , The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of… — Tennessee Williams 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
“Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I stand over them and cock my head. 'Is this the first time you've lost at something?' No answer. I frown. 'Well,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest.… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“In the end, I reach the goblet, but only after killing an annoying wizard and cruelly enslaving the race of elves by… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“That is the point of all this. To make you terrified of a world where you do not rule. Security and justice… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second… — Howard Blum Copy Share Image
“This isn't a courtroom, pal," I said to Nelson, "this is the gutter. No fancy robes, no platitudes engraved in marble, no… — James Conroy 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
“ 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Then, in front of the hostile crowd of four hundred, Darrow drew great pleasure from, as Irving Stone vividly put it, “flailing… — Andrew E. Kersten Copy Share Image
“All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“This is a trap I cannot ride away from. I guess there are those times in life. It's like staring at the… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
