Dark Age Quotes

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Mars is with you, till the Vale."

"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."

"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."

"hope is an opiate, not a plan."

"Strength always fears speed."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"I hold no man in my debt."

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

"I am the storm."

"A man is nothing before the storm."

"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."

"I. Just. Hate. Moonies."