Quotes About Sacrifice

Han?" "Yeah, sweetie." "How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?" "I don't know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them." "I'll consider that.

Leia: 'Han, what have we done?' Han: 'The same thing we always have, Princess. What we had to.' --Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

If you're out to win at any cost, you may find the price is higher than you ever expected to pay.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

What it is," she sighed, "to have to choose between self and security.

One 'take me, eat me' is worth a hundred thousand 'protect me, save me's'.

You can't help him, Eva.' Louise's voice is flat and serious. 'You will only lose yourself trying, and no one will be able to find you.' (ANXIOUS HEARTS)

We are not leaving Deathbringer!" Glory grabbed Fatespeaker. "Point the way and I'll go by myself. Starflight, get out of here. Get everyone off the island." Deathbringer? Starflight opened and closed his mouth. He hadn't realized that rescuing the NightWing assassin was even on Glory's agenda, let alone that it was important enough to risk an erupting volcano for. But she's right. He risked everything for us — for her.

Well, then, maybe she needed more friends so that some of them could be expendable. If anything happened to Clay right now, it would be the END OF ALL THINGS. She would literally burn down the world.

Don't leave out the key adjectives in there. Kill one low-ranked, disappointing brother in order to save the long-lost hero with a bright future. That makes the equation a bit easier.

Moon took up so much of his headspace. He caught himself watching her the way he used to watch Cobra, hoping for a glance that would hint she might love him back. He wanted to bring her new scrolls that would make her face light up. He wanted to make her soup when her visions gave her headaches and sing her silly songs to help her stop worrying. He wanted to fly beside her while she saved the world.

Remove firescales, add Queen Scarlet loyalty, subtract all memories of Clay.

Maybe she needed more friends, so that some of them could be expendable.

There were more important things than becoming queen. Stopping

Palm reached up to touch the glowing fire opals in her ears. "These? But they were a gift from —" "I know," said her sister. "They're much too expensive for you to afford on your

One morning shortly after Wren turned seven years old, her parents wrestled her into her best blue wool dress, pinned her down to oil her curly hair, and took her up the mountain to be eaten by a dragon.

Legend of the Hive.

fighting and dying for her and

And if you are even considering setting me free while keeping him trapped, I will roast your talons one claw at a time.

I wouldn't leave you, even for a superpower," Deathbringer said loyally. "I think that is your superpower," Glory said to him. "Extreme heroic idiocy.

She wasn't a great mother, but she was still her mother. "If we run away," Foeslayer said, "your mother will kill mine, and the other two NightWings as well. She'll think I convinced you to run off with me and she'll blame them.