Pierce Brown, Red Rising Quotes
Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.
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.
Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.
The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.
They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.
