Pierce Brown Quotes

The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.

Funny how a single word can change everything in your life.

Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.

Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.

Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.

I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.

That’s what I don’t get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad things?

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved 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.

I’m a sheep wearing wolves’ clothing in a pack of wolves.

Death is easy when you’ve already tried to find it.

Manners, manners, then burn their house to the ground.

She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.

Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars.

I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.

It is not funny at all. Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power.

I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.

In the face of cold power, she is fire.

Love and war are two different battlefields.

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.