#inning

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#winning

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. ↗

— Tracy Chevalier

#drowsiness #insomnia #reading #sleepy #winning

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#hope #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #winning

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#winning

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave. ↗

— Gerard Way

#mcr #winning

Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in. ↗

— Tim Burton

#poetry #winning

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#lying #reason #silence #truth #winning

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#endings #middle #drama

Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #life-and-living #attitude

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life-and-living #life-lessons #winning-from-within #dreams