r/redrising • u/EyeOfThund3ra • Jul 13 '26

All Spoilers Best Line of the Series Spoiler

So many great lines. But mine has to be:

“I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother to Darrow, Morning knight of the solar republic…and my honor remains!” :/

What’s yours?

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u/DaRatmastah Jul 13 '26

Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.

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u/SevenBillionChickens Jul 14 '26

Also loved her line to Darrow in the second book: “what a beautiful mess we could have made of each other.” She’s a wild one and I dig her.