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The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2) QUOTES

The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2) QUOTES

1 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

2 " only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not. "

― Evan Winter , The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

3 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

4 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

5 " At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service? "

― Evan Winter , The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

6 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

7 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

8 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

9 " 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 Burning, #2)

10 " [...] 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 (The Burning, #2)

11 " He couldn't believe she was so openly talking about them not talking. "

― Evan Winter , The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

12 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

13 " 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 (The Burning, #2)

14 " 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 (The Burning, #2)