Red Rising Saga Quotes

"Don’t you know I’ve magic in my veins?"

"Apologies. Deepest apologies. I cannot stop being captured."

"Bitch captured. Kavax free. Victory mine."

"You weeping little cow. Pick your chin up. You’re embarrassing your scar."

"I’m dead. You said it yourself. I can try to deny it, but…my sister makes me look like the village cat. I shot her in the spine and played acid drip with her back for almost a year. She’s going to peel me like an onion."

"Howl on, little Thistle."

"I want you to know, you’re doing good. I know you didn’t ask. And I’m just a grunt. But you are."

"Children, await my summons. If I fall, come with all fury."

"just because a lion lets you pet it doesn’t mean it’s tame."

"There’s moments in life where you’re walking ahead so intent on your task that you forget to look down until you feel knee-deep in quicksand."

"I have seen the heavens, I have seen the hells, and I know now that our future is war,"

"I have seen the works of these people. I have seen the war they make. The ships they sail. Words will not suffice. These Golds speak one language. And that is the language of blood. And so long as they live. So long as they speak, my people will not be safe. The power they have is too great."

"They do not know the spirit in Cassius, the nobility of a man who would have given his life for his family, but was cursed to live while they all died. They see a monster. A seven-foot-tall former god now mostly naked, humbled, strangling on his own hubris. I see a man trying his best in a world that doesn’t give a shit. It breaks my heart."

"Darrow’s wife…” Sevro croaks, larynx damaged. “His wife,” he says more deeply. “And my father never met. But they shared a dream. One of a free world. Not built on corpses, but on hope. On the love that binds us, not the hate that divides. We have lost many. But we are not broken. We are not defeated. We fight on. But we do not fight for revenge for those who have died. We fight for each other. We fight for those who live. We fight for those who don’t yet live."

"We are the new age. The new world. And if we’re to show the way, then we better damn well make it a better one. I am Sevro au Barca. And I am no longer afraid."

"I mean, gotta stop the cycle somewhere. Sucks, but dad’s gone. No sense burning down the world to try and bring him back. You know? Cassius didn’t kill dad because he hated him. They were both soldiers doing what soldiers do."

"Today I’d rather be a Barca. Presuming you don’t have a problem with that and I don’t have to become proportionally diminutive."

"She loves you, you know,” Daxo says. “She’s just afraid of losing you, so she holds you far away.” He smiles to himself. “Funny how we are, isn’t it?"

"It’s easy to fool a romantic. To think he was right there when I took his girl. You went running by in the hall screaming Tactus’s name, and he looked up in confusion. I pushed a sliver of Quinn’s skull deeper into her brain with my scalpel. I thought about letting her live with brain damage. But the thought of her drooling everywhere made me sick. You think he still would have loved her if she drooled?"

"I’ve not parted with your gift,” he says. He traces the head of the jackal. “All my life I’ve been given lions. Nothing of my own. What does it say about me that my greatest enemy knows me better than any friend?"

"Not even evolved enough to have a Color, Darrow? Just a homo sapiens playing in the realm of gods."

"Love is for the weak. The only thing you and I have in common is our hunger. You think that I cannot be satisfied. That I always yearn for more. But look in the mirror and you’ll see the same man staring back at you. Tell your little Red friends what you like. But I know you lost yourself among us. You yearned to be Gold. I saw it in your eyes at the Institute. I saw that fever on Luna when I proposed that we should rule. I saw it when you rode that triumphal chariot up to the steps of the citadel. It’s that hunger that makes us forever alone."

"You were my twin. We were bound for life.” There are tears in her eyes. “I defended you for years. Then I find out that it was you who had Claudius killed.” She blinks through the tears, shaking her head as she finds her resolve. “I cannot forgive that. I cannot. You had love and you lost it, brother. That is your curse."

"Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living."

"That is the peril of a solar empire: all the power in all the worlds means nothing if it is in the wrong place."