Quotes About Victory

Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.

Taryn glowers, putting her chin up. 'I didn't want to fight.' 'Then you ought not to do so in the future,' Madoc says. 'There's no point in fighting if you're not intending to win.

I turn and press the point of my knife directly underneath his chin. 'Jude?' he asks, up against the wall, pronouncing my name carefully, as though to avoid slurring. I am not sure I have ever heard him use my actual name before. 'Surprised?' I ask, a fierce grin starting on my face. The most important boy in Faerie and my enemy, finally in my power. It feels even better than I thought it would. 'You shouldn't be.

If you regret your move, make another. There are games yet to play.' 'I already won,' I remind him.

Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart I yearn to best them.

tonight let us remember our triumph, our trickery, and our delight in one another.

I have been Madoc's protégé and Dain's creature. I don't know how to win any other way but theirs. It is no recipe for being a hero, but it is a recipe for success. I know how to drive a knife through my own hand. I know how to hate and be hated. And I know how to win the day, provided I am willing to sacrifice everything good in me for it.

I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.

When I rise, though, I strap on my new sword. It is cold and solid in my hands, heavy as a promise.

I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win.

Two paths are before me, but only one leads to victory.

The curse is broken. The king is returned.

So much of winning is waiting.

when they are gone, it will be use staring across a chessboard at each other. And when I best you, I will make sure I do it as thoroughly as I would any opponent who has shown themselves to be my equal.

I just need to be able to vanquish my enemies. That's all.

In my heart, I yearn to best them.

it was as important to be a good winner as a good loser. I wanted Oak to give me an opportunity to be a good winner.

The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it's to win.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.

Victory shifts from man to man.

May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from battle.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.