Badassery Quotes

"Should the Void take you, celebrate, my brother. For before death, there was glory."

"All my life, I’ve tamed myself to not frighten others. Sometimes it is fun to let the lion out."

"Soft head, hard bullet. Bad combination, bitch."

"Tigresses don’t need nursemaids. Neither should we."

"in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper."

"I spot the signs of his advance from the far side of the Triumphia. It is like the coming of a tiger through tall grass. First a rippling in the distance that seems like the wind. Then a tunneling force. An outward swaying of riders. The starting of horses. Men disappear from saddles. Sunbloods collapse sideways with horrible wounds. And then, like the tiger’s tail, the curved slingBlade rises above the stalks as he threshes all in his path. He kills with impossible aggression."

"If we cannot engineer salvation for our men, then vengeance will suffice,"

"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."

"My son is lost. He will come home. But he is not here today. The enemy is. So today, we are not mothers. We are not fathers. We are not brothers or sons. They come to make us slaves again. So today we are not dreamers. We are not Colors. We are swords. We are wrath. We are reapers."

"Go, daughters of Mars, and be our wrath."

"You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them."

"She killed your parents.” His voice deepens with raw emotion. “I saw it in her eyes. She orphaned you. That is unforgivable. Family does not do that to each other. So, we are family now. You and I. And family sticks together. Come ruin or victory.” He bumps my forehead with his own. “See you in hell, little brother."

"I am Iron. I am Death. I am Gold."

"War, the mortal hallelujah.” He makes the sound of a man receiving a foot massage. “Lionheart. I have broken your champion. Now, I come for you."

"We are a pride. We kill together, we work together, we survive together. They came for a hunt, but they forgot: hic sunt leones.”"

"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."

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