Evan Winter > Quotes

“The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“I'd rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“I can't imagine a world where the man holding a sword does not have the last say over the man without one.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“He was not the strongest, the quickest, or the most talented, not by any measure. He knew this and knew he could not control this. However, he could control his effort, the work he put in, and there he would not be beaten.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“I’m not asking you to win. That’s not solely in your control,” Aren said. “I’m asking that you fight to win. Anything less is the acceptance of loss and an admission that you deserve it.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“The wars you’ll wage aren’t decided when you fight them. They’re decided before that, by the extent of your effort and the substance of your sacrifices. They are decided by the choices you make every single day. So ask yourself: ‘how powerful do I choose to be?”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“And, like that, there was no going back. A Dragon had been called and someone would have to die.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Let them think me a monster,” the Dragon Queen thought. “I will be a monster, if it means we survive.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“A fighter who will only go into battle when they're at their best fights for pleasure and not principle. The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we'll only defend them in the sun.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Jayyed sighed. “Then you’ll stand in a world of char and ash.” “But I’ll stand.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“In a small way, the world changed that day, when the Nobles of Scale Ozioma broke and ran, scattered by a new and horrible creature, born in Uhmlaba but bred in Isihogo.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Every day must be hard for you. The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve. The days you do not improve are the days the men behind you close the distance.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“It’s never acceptable to be less than you are.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“You call me a monster because I won’t let you treat me like my life is worthless, a thing to be used and thrown away?” it said. “You call me a monster because I refuse to live like you think I deserve? If that’s what you mean by monster, watch me be monstrous!”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Do you bleed?”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“I’m no hero.” “You are to the Lessers. You are to the people who still fight for us.” “I am no hero.” Tsiora made her voice hard. “Then be a weapon.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“To achieve greater results we must outlay greater efforts”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“He told himself he could stop when he could no longer make the next step. He also told himself he could always make at least the next step.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service?”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“moon, they’d be fighting in the dark. “It’s late,” said Oyibo, avoiding Tau’s eyes. Tau had conscripted his help after Yaw stopped showing up. “One,” Tau said. “Only one more.” “It’s just… it’s just you keep saying that…”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“I need to be the greatest fighter of the Omehi,” Tau said, fighting for calm, his fingernails digging into his palms. “Can you give me that?”
Jayyed grew serious. “I can’t give you anything. It might be something you can take, if you’re willing.”
“I am.”
“We’ll see. The cost for greatness is high.”
“I’ll pay anything.”
“Your life?” Jayyed asked, causing Tau to stop. “That’s the price. Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”
“Easily paid,” Tau told him.”
― Evan Winter

“Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“every fight was a rush. It was the purity of it, the honesty. When Tau sparred, it was just him and his opponent. All that mattered was experience, skill, determination, and will. The rest of the world slipped away, leaving only the next move, the next counter, the next attack, the next victory.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“You think your kudliwe can beat me?" He laughed. "Give him three swords, I'll kill him just the same.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“The wars you’ll wage aren’t decided when you fight them. They’re decided before that by the extent of your efforts and the substance of your sacrifices. They’re decided by the choices you make every single day. So ask yourself: How powerful do I choose to be?”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons