“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
“No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it felt, I knew that Jonathan Hayes owned me, heart and soul.”