Dark Age Quotes

150

"The old rage in colder ways, for they alone decide how to spend the young."

- Lorn au Arcos
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"War is our time. Sevro thought he could escape it. I thought I could end it. But our enemy is like the Hydra. Cut off one head, two more sprout. They will not sue for peace. They will not surrender. Their heart must be excised, their will to fight ground to the finest dust. Only then will there be peace."

- Darrow O'Lykos
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"I like to kill people I don’t like,” she once said when Pax asked why she follows me. “And your daddy brings ’em like flies."

- Thraxa au Telemanus
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself."

- Darrow O'Lykos
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"Well, here I am, you deviant bitch. Here I bloody am. The motherfucking consequence."

- Darrow O'Lykos
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"Here’s hoping this one’s worth a wolfcloak"

- Alexandar au Arcos
ch. Prologue, p. 1

"I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn’t. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical."

- Darrow O'Lykos
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 3

"No time for words, sir. You got killin’ to do."

- Dago O'Lykos
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 5

"Mars is with you, till the Vale."

- Dago O'Lykos
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 5

"Sir, at your side I’m a one-point-two-meter, forty-kilogram liability with quiet feet and a dirty gob. In a starShell, I’m decent. In a Drachenjäger, I’m a full-metal god."

- Rhonna O'Lykos
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 10

"He is an effective operator, to be certain. He presented me with a hideous desert rodent and said my pain would last only as long as the rat ate. It gnawed the flesh off my calves, nose, and cheeks before it split its stomach and died. It was effective. It horrified. It degraded."

- Orion xe Aquarii
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 13

"hope is an opiate, not a plan."

- Darrow O'Lykos
ch. 1: Darrow: Till the Vale, p. 13

"Strength always fears speed."

- Diomedes au Raa
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 16

"If I have to share air with this Corespawn any longer, I’ll castrate him.” She looks between my legs and raises a notched eyebrow. “If anatomically possible."

- Seraphina au Raa
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 17

"Atalantia has a savage brain and immensely contagious charisma. She is hindered by neither guilt nor doubt. She knows no half measures. She is a social strategist, a herpetologist, a sculptor, a laughing, masterful woman in love with the sound of her own voice, and convinced that beauty is the pinnacle of existence—in any form."

- Lysander au Lune
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 19

"Do you know what I learned from my father’s death? Not to ramble."

- Diomedes au Raa
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 19

"My father once said anyone interesting is at war with themselves, and can thus be described in just two words."

- Diomedes au Raa
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 19

"Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won’t be the mirror they break."

- Octavia au Lune
ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 20

"Owing to two sophisticated poisonings of Sovereigns and one dreadful incident of cloning, my family guards their DNA as if it were life itself. Why else would we convince the rest of the Aureate to embrace the ritual of shooting the deceased into the sun? Because it looks pretty? Nothing is to be left behind."

- Lysander au Lune
ch. 4: Lysander: Ajax, Son of Aja, p. 29

"I hold no man in my debt."

- Diomedes au Raa
ch. 4: Lysander: Ajax, Son of Aja, p. 31

"Never deny your enemy a chance for retreat. Victory may cost too much."

- Lysander au Lune
ch. 4: Lysander: Ajax, Son of Aja, p. 32

"I am the storm."

- Ajax au Grimmus
ch. 4: Lysander: Ajax, Son of Aja, p. 32

"A man is nothing before the storm."

- Diomedes au Raa
ch. 4: Lysander: Ajax, Son of Aja, p. 32

"You know why I prefer Sevro to you? He might burn hot. But you go cold. There’s no talking to you when you’re like this. You’re inhuman. You’re a god emperor."

- Cadus Harnassus
ch. 5: Darrow: Voyager Cloak, p. 37

"I. Just. Hate. Moonies."

- Atalantia au Grimmus
ch. 6: Lysander: Carnivores, p. 50