The Triumphant Quotes

“I would wait for you until the stars went dim and the sun and moon drowned themselves in the ocean never to rise again, Fallon ferch Virico.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“If my wicked old mother could only see me now. I wonder what she'd think."
"That she sold you for too low a price.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“You think you will be forgotten. You will not. You will find your place, you will find your purpose. And you will inspire the warriors - the women warriors - who will come after you.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“The sooner we leave, the less stench up my delicate nostrils." She waved a hand daintily in front of her face.
I laughed. 'I suppose something about you had to be delicate.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“I'm going to get more food. Maybe no one else will dare talk to us if I've got a cheese knife in my hand...”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“It changes you, doesn't it?"
"What do you mean?"
"The blood on your hands. On our hands. The fact that we've ended lives. In and out of the arena, justified or... not. I suppose.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“Well, not being afraid to die isn’t the same as not wanting to live.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“Destiny is not something that is given, It's something you prove yourself worthy of taking.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“But a leader, I now knew, wasn't just the hand that held a sword the best.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“All of you are extraordinary young women. Never doubt that, or what you have accomplished. You have all walked fearlessly into a place that, before you, was a kind of temple reserved for men only. You took oaths that, before you, only men took. You fought and hurt, and some of you even died . . . but you won glory in ways only men did. And you did it all with the grace of women.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“And home isn't where you are," I continued. "It's who you're with.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“Life was far too complicated, I thought, and there were far too many paths for my feet to tread.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant

“It's a warning. For men who think of themselves as gods. They all fall, eventually.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Triumphant