Victor Quotes

“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“We could be dead- said Eli.
That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”
― Victoria Schwab

“Will you buckle in? It’s bad enough we kidnapped you.”
― C.L. Stone, Introductions

“Serena hadn't told Sydney to go home. She hadn't told her to run away. She told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.

Specifically, safe had become Victor.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo

“Where are we going?" asked Victor. "If I'm allowed to ask."
I squirmed around in my seat so that I could look him in the eye. "That's what you're going to tell us. As hard as it is to believe, we didn't do all that just because we missed your pleasant company."
"That is hard to believe.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“And what makes you so certain I won't enlighten the world about your romantic indiscretions?"

"Because it won't save you from prison. And if you ruin Rose, you'll destroy whatever weak chance you had of Lissa helping you with your warped fantasy." Victor flinched just a little; Dimitri was right. Dimitri stepped forward, pressing close to the bars as I had earlier. I'd though I had a scary voice, but when he spoke his next words, I realized I wasn't even close. "And it'll be pointless anyway, because you won't stay alive long enough in prison to stage your grand plans. You aren't the only one with connections."

My breath caught a little. Dimitri brought so many things to my life: love, comfort, and instruction. I got so used to him sometimes I forgot how dangerous he could be. As he stood there, tall and threatening while he glared down at Victor, I felt a chill run down my spine. I remembered how when I had first come to the Academy, people said Dimitri was a god. In this moment, he looked like it.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

“ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ
ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“This was not a world of men. It was a world of gods, a time of great powers. It was the era of divinity walking in man, of wind and water and fire. And in warfare, she who held the power asymmetry was the inevitable victor.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.”
― Victor Borge

“I want you to break the spell. Finish it off.”
"What do you mean?”
"The spell you did on me and Dimitri.”
"That spell is done. It burned itself out.”
I shook my head. "No. I keep thinking about him. I keep wanting to…”
He smiled knowingly when I didn't finish. "My dear, that was already there, long before I set that up.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.”
― J.A. Redmerski, Killing Sarai

“I've been wanting to do that for a very long time," I growled
Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill."
I clenched his shirt and leaned him over him. "Me? I'm not the one who tortured Lissa for my own benefit. I'm not the one who turned my daughter Strigoi. And I'm sure as hell not the one who used compulsion to kidnap a fifteen-year-old girl!”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“If he weren't currently in the back of a cop car, he would have wanted to make a thesis note.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Self-righteousness,- Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, ―He heals. It‘s a reflexive ability. In his eyes, I think that makes it somehow pure. Divine. He can‘t technically use his power to hurt others.
―No,- said Sydney, ―he uses guns for that.
Victor chuckled.”
― Victoria Schwab

“My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“No wonder I worried about talking dirty; talking in general seemed to escape me.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Criss Cross

“I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!”
― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

“(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?”
― Victor Borge

“I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.”
― Victor Borge

“Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.”
― Victor Borge

“I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.”
― Victor Borge

“(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?”
― Victor Borge

“The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.”
― Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“When you are being hunted,
set your mind as the predator.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“One night stands are like chess, only the loser desires a rematch.”
― Robert Black

“The BEAUTY and POWER of a new day… It arrives with a reminder and declaration that nothing has defeated you… You are still here… Not a victim, but a VICTOR! This new day offers an open horizon of second chances, fresh choices, and unexpected blessings.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I can barely hear her whisper. "One of us has to win this thing."

My eyes travel up the long stems to the arrow-shaped leaves, the white petals, concealing us from Capitol cameras. "Why's that?" I whisper back.

"One of us has to be the worst victor in history. Tear up their scripts, tear down their celebrations, set fire to the Victor's Village. Refuse to play their game."

Reminds me of Pa. "Make sure they don't use our blood to paint their posters?"

"Exactly. We'll paint our own posters. And I know just where we can get the paint." In a gesture I remember from the schoolyard long ago, she extends her pinkie. "Swear it."

I encircle it with my own and our pinkies lock tight. They will never let me be a victor, not after my attempt to break the arena, but I can swear to try to keep her alive. "One of us paints the posters.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping