“You don't need to be gifted with a blade. You are your own best weapon.”

Absolutely brilliant! The Winner's Kiss was very near perfection for me, and it's definitely my favourite from the trilogy, though The Winner's Curse is pretty close behind. I will miss this beautiful gem of a story and its characters very much, but I also know that this is one of those series that I will always come back to eventually. One of those tales which will truly stay with me.


Some of my favourite quotes:

“As he spoke, it occurred to her that maybe he, too, felt like two people, that maybe everybody does, and that it’s not a question of whether one’s damaged, but of how easily or not that damage is seen.”


“He changed us both." She seemed to struggle for words. "I think of you, all that you lost, who you were, what you were forced to be, and might have been, and I—I have become this, this person, unable to—"
She shut her mouth.
"Kestrel," he said softly, "I love this person.”


“Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.”


“I happen to be very good at war. It’s because I’m so handsome. Like one of your gods. People see me and their minds go blank. I run my sword right through them.”

<-- Roshar represented the much needed comic relief throughout this dark story. I surprisingly love his character!


“Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.”


She thought of her past. Her whole life. "I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them."