Quotes About Challenge

Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

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

The idea that I can untangle everything seems as impossible as spinning straw in to gold, but each night I stay awake until the sun is high in the sky, trying my hardest to do just that.

We show her that I am no feckless High king.' 'And how do we do that?' I ask. 'With great difficulty,' he says. 'Since I fear she is right.

Vuelve cuando regresar te parezca una decisión difícil.

It's exhausting to watch someone try to be a ship that rocks will break against.

I will have to do something about Locke eventually, but not tonight.

If he thought I was bad, I would be worse.

She's right to be worried. I just declared war

For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. "Oh," he says. "You're going to regret doing that." I don't think he realizes just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she reads. "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Plunge a heated sword in oil, and any small flaw will turn in to a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

This is the problem with living by instinct. I don't think.

This is just a game,' Nicasia says. 'But sometimes we play too hard with our toys. And then they break.' 'It's not like we drowned you ourselves,' Valerian calls.

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

She's right to be worried. I just declared war.

We're not mortal. We will break you. You're a fragile little thing; we'd hardly need to try. Give up." "Never," I say. He smiles, smug. "Never? Never is like forever - too big for mortals to comprehend.

And yours is to throw yourself into the mouth of the lion and hope it doesn't like your savor

Then I raise my blade, presenting it to my opponent. I salute her in the mirror.

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.

Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.

In my heart, I yearn to best them.

Just when you think you've sunk as far as it's possible to sink, there's always a lower place. There's always something worse to be scared about.