Quotes About Determination

You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.

So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

I have been Madoc's protégé and Dain's creature. I don't know how to win any other way but theirs. It is no recipe for being a hero, but it is a recipe for success. I know how to drive a knife through my own hand. I know how to hate and be hated. And I know how to win the day, provided I am willing to sacrifice everything good in me for it. I said that if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.

Plunge a heated sword into oil, and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

I said that if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

Let Cardan not be shot. Let the Ghost be clumsy. Let me get inside easily. Let me stop him. I do not pause to ask myself to ask why I am in such a panic to save someone for whom I swore I rooted out every feeling. I will not think about that. Page 141

For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery.

Instead of being afraid, I will become something to fear.

because no matter how I denied it, some part of me knew what would choose." -Jude Duarte

Can you save yourself?

Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am not a fool.

I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.

I'm not afraid," Zacharov says, still looking at Anton. "It takes guts to kill a man with your hands. You don't have the balls.