Red Rising Saga Quotes

"I believe a man can walk out of his own darkness"

"Darrow is not the hugest man I’ve ever met, but he is the only man I’ve ever met who makes his own gravity."

"I sway knowing only a portion of what those eyes have seen. Eo hanging. Armadas burning. A Sovereign dying on his blade. For a horrifying second, I realize what it must be like to be him. The man cursed to use the weapons of the enemy to liberate people like me."

"Darrow is all weight and silence. Sevro is like staring into a woodchipper, not sure if it’s coming your way."

"It is a noble thing to keep the beasts from the door. Whatever people say, they could not say it if you didn’t."

"It is in your hands now. You know what I think. But I’m an old coward. Prove me wrong."

"Ares was a warrior. Athena is…a builder."

"You have a callsign already?” “Red Banshee,” I say. “It’s rude to start a friendship with lies,” he replies. “What is it really? You can be honest with me.” I grimace. “Truffle Pig.” “Oh dear.” A smile creeps across his face. “You really shouldn’t have told me that."

"To be the master of so much power is to be trapped by it. I prefer my destroyer. To be a dragon rather than a volcano."

"It is better for an enemy to be strong and visible than to be missing and capable"

"my grandmother exposed me to several warrior specimens at a young age to ‘inoculate me from fear.’ She’d put them on a collar in my room, until I could fall asleep at the drop of a pin. Little did she know it’d be a goblin who would haunt my nightmares."

"They are a race of relentless darkness. That is their home, after all: the darkness out there in the Kuiper Belt. And darkness always finds a way. They are the product of a failed rebellion. The scions of the warriors who followed King Kuthul. They are consummate survivors. Clever enough to know what they’re good at, wise enough to realize what they are not. To think of them as simply space-dwelling Obsidians is to underestimate them."

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"if you’re going to eat sausage, you should be able to stomach seeing how it’s made."

"When life springs forth, death follows behind,” interrupts Aurae, quoting from the book. “When goodness is found, evil is close at hand…” “The path straddles the boundary between these things,” I reply."

"Here’s what. We start skinning the Raa’s toes first,” Sevro says a few hours later. Diomedes has gained consciousness, and he’s not talking yet. Sevro has one of his knives out and leans back in one of the lounge’s sofas, his voice soft as if telling a children’s story. “You always start with the digits. I have made a paring knife that will do just fine. There’s lots of nerves in the toes. The most sensitive are under the cuticles. After we flay his toesies, we’ll salt them. Then we’ll bash them, right? One by one. Then I’ll use Tickler here and we’ll work our way up."

"Honor, dipshit. The Rim and Cassius have something in common. They’re new to this war. They don’t know what we know. Honor, if it ever existed, was the first casualty."

"Diomedes was your friend, but barely. So take a moment. Weigh your loss against ours. We who have given our blood, our lives, our futures to House Lune. We who have abdicated legacy for ourselves by forsaking the chance for children. We who would give our lives for you, if you but asked.” He sets his Praetorian dagger on his thigh. “And consider, perhaps we are due more than gratitude, gilded though it might be."

"The future of the Society should be decided by its patriots, not its betrayers. The Rim is eating the meal they served us."

"Ugly business, godhood, but not the first time a man’s hidden behind the visage of the divine."

"A Gorgon once is a Gorgon forever. His birth name is Vagnar Hefga, and he is the finest soldier with whom I have ever served."

"Banished to the dark, we found solace in the fact that we were spending our lives spreading the light of the Society. It was our sustenance. Our religion. Then came the Battle of Ilium. Then Luna itself fell. Then the light went out.” He looks down. “Nothing can live long without light. Nothing good."

"Our most noble families are rife with desire for vengeance. For power. Division is a cancer, Lysander, and I am excising the affected tissue."

"I do not do this for glory or my own satisfaction. I do this because I believe in the Society enough to be the tool it requires. I am a monster because a monster is needed. But after, when the monster has rampaged and terrorized the people, they will need a savior to gather them up, remind them of their better values, and lead them to a better, more unified future. I have brought darkness to the worlds in its fullest extreme so you can bring the light."

"If you wish to be straightened, you must first be bent crooked."