Catherynne M. Valente Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Moving, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.174, Macmillan

• War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  War, Reading, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.93, Macmillan

• Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Kings, Fighting, Winning

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