As we pretend to be brave, we become so.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Bravery

Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Bravery Freedom Slavery

Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It’s amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Introverts Writers On Writing Writing

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Betrayal Deception

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Dead Demons Festival

And there's the beauty of space. A billion paths to choose.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Space

You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.Fair enough.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Crying Darrow Morning Star Pierce Brown Red Rising Sci Fi Sevro Tears

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Enslave Free Injustice

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Brutality Civilization Natural Selection Politics Strong Weak

I still remember the flush of blood in her cheeks as she danced. She was all the raw colours of life, the crude beauty of nature. I am the human concept of beauty. Gold made soft and supple in man's form.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Darrow Love Metaphor Two Halves Of One Whole

Rather a drink be my master than a man.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Alcohol

My chair rolls to a stop. his voice cut short, followed by a thump and sliding sound. My wheelchair rolls forward again. I look back and see Ragnar pushing it innocently along. Sevro isn't in the hallway behind us. I frown, wondering where he went, till he bursts out of a side passage.You! Troll! Sevro shouts. I'm a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop my candy! Sevro looks at the floor of the hallway. Wait. Where is it? Dammit, Ragnar. Where is my peanut bar? You know how many people I had to kill to get that? Six! Six! Ragnar chews quietly above me, and though I'm probably mistaken, I think I see him smile.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Candy Morning Star Pierce Brown Red Rising Sassy Dialogue Sci Fi Sevro

Darrow: Does he really believe believe in magic? I ask.Daxo Au Telemanus: He says gnomes steals ear wax from him at night. Mother thinks he's been hit too many times in the head. Daxo backs away following his father. But he can't hide the his clever smile as he pops a jellybean into his mouth. And I see where the ones in my pocket came from. I say he just lives in a more entertaining world than we do.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Humor Sci Fi

You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Exceptions Rules

It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I would have been jostled by men I'd grown up with, run across girls I'd chased and wrestled with as a child. Here, other Colors slam into me and offer not even a faint apology. This is a city, and I do not like it. I feel alone.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Alone In A Crowd City

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Learning School Writing