Golden Son

Author: Pierce Brown Source: Zotero item ST9ECZ2F (Books collection) Ingested: 2026-06-15 — 6 highlights, 1 marginalia note (updated 2026-07-05, +2 highlights)

Highlights

p. 87 — "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark"

He folds his hands gently, a teacher arriving at his point. "So do I feel lost? Always. When Lea died at the Institute …" His lips slip gently downward. "… I was in a dark woods, blind and lost as Dante before Virgil. But Quinn helped me. Her voice calling me out of misery. She became my home. As she puts it, 'Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.'"

p. 96 — "How we stand before we fall"

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.

p. 225 — "You meet a man, you know him."

You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.

p. 261 — "Liars make the best promises"

Liars make the best promises

Note: Lorn au Archos

p. 31 — "If you must only wound the man, you better kill his pride"

"In the words of Lorn au Arcos, if you must only wound the man, you better kill his pride."

p. 99 — "If you're a fox, play the hare"

If you're a fox, play the hare. If you're a hare, play the fox. —LORN AU ARCOS

Source Provenance

• Zotero item: ST9ECZ2F — [zotero://select/library/items/ST9ECZ2F](zotero://select/library/items/ST9ECZ2F)
• Authors: Pierce Brown
• Collection: Books (pleasure reading)
• Series: Red Rising Saga (book 2 of 3+)

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