"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’t ..."
- Pierce Brown
"Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart."
"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 daught..."
"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."
"Power is the crown that eats the head,”..."
"...power doesn’t shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust."
"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."
"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..."
"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 felled,..."
"My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not eno..."