Morning Star
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The unputdownable third book in the Red Rising series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Golds demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.
Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive cutthroat rivalries, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution.
Finally, the time has come.
But Darrow and his comrades face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied - and too glorious to surrender.
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Unchaptered
p. 243
When I looked up at my farther as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constrict slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I’m tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before.
p. 340
Absent love, fear will do nicely in a pinch.
p. 392
…anything that believes only in itself cannot go happily into the night.
p. 443
Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.
“No child in my family watches holos before the age of twelve. We all have nature and nurture to shape us. She can watch other people’s opinions when she has opinions of her own, and no sooner. We’re not digital creatures. We’re flesh and blood. Better she learns that before the world finds her…”
Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.