Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Golden Son:
“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
“Liars make the best promises.”
“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
“It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.”
“He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
“You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks."I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized?”
“Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.”
“Rise so high, in mud you lie.”
“For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”
“Everyone's honest till they're caught in a lie.”
“They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”
“You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.”
“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.”
“We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.”
“Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.”
“If you're a fox, play the hare. If you're the hare, play the fox.”
“And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?”
“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
“Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.”
“We’re all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us.”
“In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down.”
“Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
“In another life, you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love.”
“Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome into his house, so I might burn it down. But then his daughter takes my hand, and I feel all the lies fall heavy on my shoulders. They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”
“Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.”
“How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.”
