Quotes About Sacrifice

So this," she said, "what's happening and what's going to happen, this isn't your fault. You can't control everything and not everything is your responsibility. At Croke Park you said something about how you don't want to drag me around after you so I can die beside you. I wanted to tell you then, but I didn't have the words and I didn't have the time. I'm here because I choose to be. You save my life. I save yours. That's how we work." "Until the end." "Until the end.

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

There's nothing I would change about the last few years. Valkyrie has proven herself to be an astonishing individual and one I would gladly lay down my life for, such as it is. How many people leading normal lives would you be able to say that about?" "Until the end," Valkyrie said softly. Skulduggery looked at her, his head tilting gently.

He hesitated. 'Serpine used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill them. He took my family's death and he made it about me. Valkyrie, when you die, it will be your death and yours alone. Let it come to you on your own terms.' She nodded. 'Valkyrie Cain,' he said, 'it has been an absolute pleasure knowing you.

Skulduggery walked over slowly. He had picked up his severed arm and was now holding it out to her. "Here," he said. "Let me give you a hand.

If none of that was a thing," she interrupted. "If you could go back right and, like, stop me from ever getting involved, knowing what lay ahead of me, would you do it?" Skulduggery focused on the road ahead for a few seconds. "For my sake, I wouldn't change a thing," he said. "For your sake? I'd change everything.

This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, - China Sorrows

There is no heroism in war – there are simply things that need to be done.

We'll give you half now, you give us the gold, and then we give you the other half." "There are three babies. How do you give me half?" He shrugged. "Chop a baby in two." "You know, even for a goblin, that's disturbed.

The dream of peace, you understand, is a dream that comforts everyone except the soldier on the battlefield. He can't think about peace. He can't hesitate. The soldier lives in the war. In combat, war is his mother, his friend and his god. To believe in anything else is suicide.

I'm afraid I can't let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that's about it.

My magic," Valkyrie said, looking at him. "Darquesse took my magic.

She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered. "Which you have already done," Nye nodded... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through.

What is it with you women? You come into out lives, you take everythin'! Throughtout the years you got little peces of me, of my very soul, and now? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even shave? - Billy-Ray Sanguine

Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.

Valkyrie knelt, tried to pull his hand away from his shoulder. "Did he shoot you? Did he hit you?" "He damaged my jacket," Skulduggery said, but, when she managed to pull his hand away, his façade's skin was rippling and fragments of bone fell to the floor. "It's just my clavicle," he said. "I have a spare.

Say thank you, Detective Marr, for letting me stand up." And Valkyrie said, "Thank you, Detective Marr, for giving me back my ring." Marr's eyes flickered to the ground where the ring had fallen, but it wasn't there any more, and before she could do anything about it, Valkyrie sent a fist of shadows slamming into the detective's chest.

How stupid am I, huh? Boom, just like that, I'm cut off and now I can see the whole thing. You've never done anything for anyone else. You've never inconvenienced yourself purely for someone else's benefit. The rest of us have. It's what makes us good people. You? You've saved the world, but you're not a good person.

I can get us past them," Sanguine said, "but I'd probably be better going alone." Donegan frowned. "That's uncharacteristically brave of you." "Not at all. Lugging you idiots around would slow me down and get me killed.

I can't let your groin stand between me and saving lives.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.