The Winner S Kiss Quotes

#1. In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.

Alice Sebold

#2. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

Betty Smith

#4. Let Arin surprise us," Roshar said. "That's how we do things. He comes up with something brilliant and I take the credit.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Honore De Balzac

#6. I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them.

Marie Rutkoski

#7. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

Marie Rutkoski

#8. The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

Paul Henderson

#9. A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. You haven't asked me about Arin," Roshar said as he rode alongside him.
"What?"
"The tiger. Not the surly human.

Marie Rutkoski

#11. And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.

Michael Hastings

#12. After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.

Marie Rutkoski

#13. We may argue and have our ups and downs, but any poor soul who ever tries to get between us will find out that our love is stronger than ever.

Steve Maraboli

#14. May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!

Matthieu Ricard

#15. You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Logan Pearsall Smith

#16. Maybe love was easy, she thought. Maybe her past wasn't vital as her present, she thought. But then she heard her father say that she'd broken his heart, and she could no longer believe that either thought was true.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. I love is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.

Nick Joaquin

#18. If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#19. Many opportunities are missed, since we fail to give it a try.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

Stephen Leacock

#21. Little Arin has missed me. I will not be parted from him."
"Would you consider changing his name?"
"No."
"What if I begged?"
"Not a chance."
"Roshar, the tiger has grown."
"And what a sweet big boy he is.

Marie Rutkoski

#22. The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

Frederick Lenz

#23. It occured to him that he might have to grow comfortable with happiness, because it might not abandon him this time.

Marie Rutkoski