Death Quotes
34"Should the Void take you, celebrate, my brother. For before death, there was glory."
- Ajax au Grimmus
Dark Age, ch. 16: Lysander: Rider of the Storm, p. 128
"I’ve spent enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don’t rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt.” She shrugs. “They’d want us to live. And life’s about the now and the future, eh?"
- Deanna O'Lykos
Dark Age, ch. 29: Virginia: The Dust of Reverie, p. 241
"The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death."
- Octavia au Lune
Dark Age, ch. 34: Lysander: Shadows of War, p. 290
"Daxo taught my son to build castles in the sand. Pax cried when the waves came in. Your brother sat him on his knee and told him that’s all life is. Moments you build only to see washed away. But that doesn’t mean it’s all for nothing. The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter. I will miss your brother, Thraxa. But he isn’t gone."
- Darrow O'Lykos
Dark Age, ch. 35: Darrow: Endure, p. 302
"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."
- Darrow O'Lykos
Dark Age, ch. 84: Darrow: Meat Straw, p. 691
"I am equal parts of my father and mother. But we Julii have a tradition. If family blood spills by your debt, you swim to the sun. You may look back when it is gone. If no light appears onshore to welcome you home, you swim on.” She’s quiet for a moment. “Some never turn to look back."
- Electra au Barca
Dark Age, ch. 88: Lyria: Mercury Has Fallen, p. 710
"Don’t let Glirastes’s death haunt you, Lysander. Now that you’re in the game, he won’t be the last friend you sacrifice."
- Atalantia au Grimmus
Light Bringer, ch. 17: Lysander: Mars Must Fall, p. 179
"Sefi once told me fruit is never sweeter than after you’ve eaten shit.” He peels a tangerine and eats it before spitting it out. “Not ripe yet.” He considers his braves. “They will mourn later. For now it is enough they know their brothers would smile to see them living. So they smile for their brothers, for they had a good death. Later they will miss them. Later they will mourn."
- Valdir the Unshorn
Light Bringer, ch. 29: Virginia: Pity Them, p. 244
"Remember, you live for the fallen, for at your word they ran to the grave. Make not their sacrifice be ever in vain."