The Fires of Vengeance Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“You see, we all have demons,” Tau said. “I just learned to use mine.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“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

“He couldn't believe she was so openly talking about them not talking.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“I don't know."
"How is that good enough?"
He took her hands in his. "It isn't. It isn't good enough and nothing will be for a while, because that's part of what loss is, an absence of goodness and happiness taht cant be reason with or diminished.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“The problem with feeling safe in a tent is that though it may hide the dangers outside, its canvas is no protection from them.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

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

“But Tau knew who decided what needed to be measured, and they’d chosen things in which they already had an advantage. They said, “This matters more than that,” making it seem as if their edicts sprang from natural law when they were little more than self-serving choices. They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority. It was all a lie.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Because the limits to which we’ve been yoked were never ours, and the stories we’ve been told about our nature, our insignificance, and our lack, they were never true.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“One of the most important things in life is to complete what you start”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

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

“Hafsa sputtered; no matter the frequency with which she encountered it, the effortless idiocy of men always surprised her.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Abasi Odili won't escape what he's done," Tau told him. "Keep fighting, and I swear that before it consumes us, we'll burn our pain to ash in the fires of vengeance.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“The way she was looking at him made Tau worry he’d overstepped, but he was weary of making himself less than he was so that those cloaked in power might be comfortable.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Tau realized that the unending agony in his leg wouldn't have the chance to drive him mad. The fruitless hopes of the religious zealots would do it first.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“He knew that the difference between the ones who stood and the ones who fell was that the truly triumphant taught themselves to meet all their fights, regardless of circumstance, in spite of the odds, and in defiance of fear. So,”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“[...] Tau admitted to himself that being near Tsiora gave him peace.
"Tau, do you know why we haven't been able to win the war against the Xideen?"
Well, most of the time it gave her peace.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance