Red Rising Trilogy Quotes & Sayings

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked. — Pierce Brown

I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven. — Pierce Brown

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more. — Mother Teresa

And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men! — Alexandre Dumas

Pliny is a leech," I say. "A liar as much as you're an honest man."
"And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises. — Pierce Brown

To prosper, your superior must prosper. — Pierce Brown

Break the chains. — Pierce Brown

Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. — Floyd McClung

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. — Learned Hand

I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job. — Kathleen Hanna

Everything's simpler without constraints. — Erin Bowman

We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It's not his right — Pierce Brown

Break the chaings. — Pierce Brown

It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats. — Pierce Brown

Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them. — Pierce Brown

How can you get fired from the company you started? — Steve Jobs

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in
themselves. — Erich Fromm

I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.

It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one — Pierce Brown