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Quotes from Morning Star — Pierce Brown

born 1988 United States

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Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.

Morning Star (2016)

If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.

Morning Star (2016)

How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.

Morning Star (2016)

"What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read." Romulus thumps his chest. "Honor is what you do."

Morning Star (2016)

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.

Morning Star (2016)

Yes. I'm alone.
I would have thought there to be worse fates than this, but now I know there are none. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.

Morning Star (2016)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierce Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.