65 quotes found
“Freedom costs too much”
“Liars make the best promises.”
“There is no peace for great men”
“Rather a drink be my master than a man.”
“As we pretend to be brave, we become so.”
“Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor”
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver. She makes sure I dont speak.Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the loudertheir voice, the deeper the ...”
“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
“I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don...”
“I didn't mind that it was always about you, Darrow. That was what burned Tactus, but not me. I'm not in love with you like Mustang. I don't worship you like Sevro or the Howlers. I was a true frien...”
“Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.”
“Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.”
“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.”
“Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, Ive always wished to make a god.”
“Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome into his house, so I might burn it down. But then his dau...”
“s father's words. But they are as empty on his lips as they feel in my ears. This was has taken everything from him. I see in his eyes how broken he is. how terribly hard he is trying to be his fat...”
“Love and war. Same coin. Different sides. I'm too wrinkled for either.""Maybe war will breathe some life into your old bones.""Well, I tried love last month." He leans close. "Didn't work like it u...”
“War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear. At the Institute, I feared men. I feared what Titus and the Jackal could do to me. You see death coming there a...”
“Wisdom is found in the heart not the head.”
“Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear a...”
“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence."He tells how the Persians were fell...”
“The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.”
