Sparring Quotes

“Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history podna."

"Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If the shoe fits...”
― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess

“Taking out your enemy before the battle is really smart; I'll give you that,' he whispers, his warm breath brushing the shell of my ear.

Oh gods. He knows what I've been doing. The pain in my arm is nothing compared to the nausea churning in my stomach at the thought of what he might do with that knowledge.

'Problem is, if you aren't testing yourself in here'- he scrapes the dagger down my neck, but there's no warm trickle of blood, so I know he hasn't cut me- 'then you're not going to get any better.'

'You'd rather I die, no doubt,' I fire back, the side of my face pressed into the mat. This isn't just painful, it's humiliating.

'And be denied the pleasure of your company?' he mocks.

'I fucking hate you.' The words are past my lips before I can shut my mouth.

'That doesn't make you special.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Feeble human body, hey?”
Mikael said it in the way that he had, that made everything sound slightly naughty and sexual. I aimed three quick jabs at his head, which wiped the innuendo off his face.”
― Melanie Cusick-Jones, Cirque de la Nuit

“My first sparring session with him saw him bullying me around the ring, so I thought fuck this, and when he came back in close, I threw the boxing code of conduct out of the window and hit him with a cracking right hand in to the balls! That sapped the energy out of him and that was the end of that. In the end, I could take anything he threw at me and then I’d come back with mine, which he didn’t like and people would comment on how much I’d ‘come on’.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“What is sparring but a game of strategy, played at speed?”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Not fair to use your powers on the mat.' Magical. Sexual. Whatever. It's all unfair.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“...they all talked to each other like they were sparring partners. Pretty words masking sharp-edged insults.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“With you, life would be a pleasant dream,
a dream where all alone, just two, we are,
outside of which, this pleasant dream,
nothing left that’s true we’d have to spar;
yet my life without you wanes,
so I’m left with just my dreams,
each dream I live - there all is well, though, -
my dreams without a flame like embers glow…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...