The Rage of Dragons 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

“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

“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

“Jayyed sighed. “Then you’ll stand in a world of char and ash.” “But I’ll stand.”
― 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

“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

“It’s never acceptable to be less than you are.”
― 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

“To achieve greater results we must outlay greater efforts”
― 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

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

“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

“To defend against failure, every day must be hard. Every day must strengthen you. For it’s in the crucible of hard days that potential becomes power.” Jayyed stepped closer, within arm’s length of Tau. “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

“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.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Truth? I’m thankful they exposed our weaknesses. Now we can see it for what it is and burn it away.”
― 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

“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.”
― 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

“Tau let his thoughts fade, focusing on the run. He was tired, injured, and would have loved nothing more than to stop. He refused to do it though. He told himself he could stop when he could no longer make the next step. He also told himself he could always make the next step.

He counted them that way, in ones. One step, one step, one step. It kept him going, to think of the task in its smallest pieces. One step, one step.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“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

“Lekan was self-impressed, condescending, and the single best argument against making firstborns heir to anything.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“You were defending Chosen lives."
"It doesn't feel that way."
"If you didn't fight, she'd have killed a woman and a child. Would their deaths be a fair price for a clear conscience?”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“She had so little of Tsiory left, but what she had she would protect.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Can you hold this land for me, my champion?" she asked, hating herself for making this seem his fault, his shortcoming.
"I cannot."
"Then," she said, turning to him, "the dragons will.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons