“... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I see why Demokracy is illegal. First comes yelling. Frustration. Indecision. Disagreements. Ideas.” — Pierce Brown 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
“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
“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
“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
“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“You are the wolf that howls and bites. i am the mustang that nuzzles the hand People know they can work with… — 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
“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
“ 'Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy.… — 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
“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
“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
