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Dark Age

Pierce Brown

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”

“Well, here I am, you deviant bitch. Here I bloody am. The motherfucking consequence.”

“You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”

“I no longer trust stillness. Stillness is the enemy taking careful aim.”

“There will dawn a day when these hostile hours, these days of hatred and violence, seem the faintest of memories, but dark and steep and long is the road up out of hell. So do not tire, do not despair, do not abandon your brethren, and do not forget that through this darkness we and we alone carry the light of freedom. We must defend it with every cell in our bodies. If not now, when? If not us, who?”

“A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself.”

“The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter.”

“I’ll never get used to seeing the fear Sevro wakes in people. Deep down they know Darrow is operating on a framework of logic. No one, not even me, believes that Sevro is completely sane.”

“Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?”

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Book Keywords:

emotions, dark-age, red-rising-saga, life, liberty, feelings, politics, freedom, dark-times

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