{"author":"Pierce Brown","author_id":"Pierce+Brown","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["darrow","helldiver","leader","pierce-brown","red-rising","war"],"id":7694,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["brutality","civilization","natural-selection","politics","strong","weak"],"id":24817,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["heart","melody","mind","music"],"id":28011,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"Wisdom is found in the heart not the head.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["heart","wisdom"],"id":34246,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["corruption","politics","sacrifice"],"id":37152,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["exceptions","rules"],"id":44032,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"Darrow: 'Does he really believe believe in magic?' I ask.Daxo Au Telemanus: 'He says gnomes steals ear wax from him at night. Mother thinks he's been hit too many times in the head.' Daxo backs away following his father. But he can't hide the his clever smile as he pops a jellybean into his mouth. And I see where the ones in my pocket came from. 'I say he just lives in a more entertaining world than we do.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["humor","sci-fi"],"id":51195,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"I didn't mind that it was always about you, Darrow. That was what burned Tactus, but not me. I'm not in love with you like Mustang. I don't worship you like Sevro or the Howlers. I was a true friend. I was someone who saw your light and your dark and accepted both without judgement, without agenda...","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["friendship"],"id":52270,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["friendship"],"id":56004,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"Power is the crown that eats the head,”...","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["power"],"id":62638,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}