Red Rising Saga Quotes

"My people believe only the dust knows the weight of Golden boots better than Reds and Pinks."

"Once more unto the breach, it seems."

"You know me. I never fight fair if I can help it."

"You’re a fool.” She draws her razor and surprises me by pushing it into my hands. “Take Bad Lass. If you die, die with a blade in your hands."

"Rhone is no parade soldier. A veteran’s veteran, he’s fought on thirteen spheres and wears the evidence in the phalera on his chest and the scars on his face. He is no blunt object. A violent intellectual, he was Aja’s favorite Gray, and he is now the clever engine of my growing military machine."

"Better to be impoverished and strong than impoverished and popular"

"Mobs may seem strong as the sea, but give me a starShell, and a Moses I will be."

"without power, everything else is just good intentions."

"It is a master’s nature to want, just as it is a servant’s nature to provide. This does not mean the master does not provide. This does not mean a servant does not want."

"I am a Pink. I humor everyone.” She doesn’t sound bitter about it. “We all have our survival mechanisms, Darrow. I am and always have been air. Until now you could afford to be a rock. You didn’t have to change or alter course. Now you are cracking. That is a good thing. If you wish to be repaired…"

"Even if I loathe war, my body thrills to its rituals like a drunk hearing the clink of ice into a whiskey tumbler."

"Darrow, Darrow, Darrow. Truly you are divine. For you have answered my prayers. Welcome to the Dockyards of the Minotaur. Welcome to your doom."

"What concerns are there but honor? What is there to lose but life?"

"War scenes and the word Dustmaker are etched into the metal along with a line from the Iliad: I Too Shall Lie In the Dust When I Am Dead, But Now Let Me Win Noble Renown. This particular Cestus is named the Binds of Zeus."

"If all lies were so kind, I’d never wish to hear the truth."

"I am a simple knight"

"Words. I watched Rhea burn, lad,” he says. “There is a sickness here in the Core for which the only cure is quarantine. We should not be here. But we are. And when we leave, I will burn the bridge behind us."

"Had I a moonBreaker in my palm, I’d shake even the devil’s hand with a grin."

"Nephew, I was sorry to hear of my brother’s death. He was a great man, your father. We had our differences, namely your mother, but I loved him very much. I have no doubt you’ll live up to our name."

"Starvation is a slow boil. The pan is set. The burner is on."

"Helios, we ply the same trade you and I. Truth. But ask yourself. Between the two of us, who is the one who has broken an oath? And who is the one who has not?"

"It is no shame to be loved."

"In rapture, behind a ghost’s guise, I witnessed your rage against the Grimmus horde. As your army fell man by man in crossing the Ladon, I wept. For their purity. For their faith. Surely, since the age of Merrywater, no nobler soldiers have ever lived or died for their commander. Always on the back foot. Biting, gnawing for every inch of ground. Smashing the rising beast Ajax against the walls of Heliopolis. Truly, they were sons and daughters of Mars.” He touches his breast. “Respect."

"Patient is the bow of Apollo far-striker."

"Dirt from Mother Mars,” Apollonius calls. “My last gift to you. So that when you fall, it may be into her embrace. Know when I return to our cradle…when I fall upon Mars in the last Iron Rain of this age, you will be with me as Medusa was with Perseus. Your head will be affixed upon my shield. And when rots the flesh, the skull will be cleaned and preserved with tender care, and set upon the right horn of my helmet so all may see me and know, there…yes, there up high…you see him, my son? There is the mortal who thought to challenge the heavens, and there is the dauntless god that humbled him."