The Winners Kiss Quotes & Sayings

Kestrel remembered how it felt to lose to her father at Bite and Sting, at Borderlands, at anything he chose to play. The dig at her pride. A hurt certainty that she'd never be able to prove herself to him. Embarrassment for wanting to prove herself.

She remembered her hands clinging to his jacket, her whole self reduced to two claws as she pleaded with him.

War wasn't a game, but she wanted badly to make her father know how it felt to lose. — Marie Rutkoski

For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses. — Joyce Carol Oates

The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night. — Caroline Dries

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners — Regina Spektor

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio. — Mekhi Phifer

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. — Brian Eno

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. — Alan Moore

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming. — Paul Kagame

A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose, — Anthony Trollope

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered. — Carter Heyward

While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine. — Brock Yates

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat. — Arabella Weir

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors. — Melody Beattie

I was briefly bitter. — Margot Kidder