Quotes About Boldness

There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo." Luke and Magnus, pg. 285

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

I do not walk like a duck.

This is probably a bad idea," Jace said. "Like, a record-breakingly bad idea. Like a go-down-in-history bad idea. But—" Clary bounced to her feet. "What he means is, we're in," she said. "We love bad ideas." "That's true," Jace admitted, a smile breaking over his face. Suddenly he looked seventeen again.

When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall." "Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches.

Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass

It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.

I make rude gestures at nuns

Show them what a shadowhunter is made of; show them you aren't afraid

You know you're nuts, right?" His brother should know him better than to be surprised that when he did something, he went all in. "No, I'm just that good." Although when riding a bucking animal that out-weighed a man by ten times, being a little crazy didn't hurt.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.

Daring is the thing for a fighting man to be remembered by.

My heart is not a home for cowards. D. ANTOINETTE FOY

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!

Everybody goes around missing all the best stuff because they don't want anything bad to happen. But then when something bad wants to happen it just does. Anyway. No matter how careful you're being.

The other part of it was that sometimes you just have to take a chance on something, because otherwise you definitely end up with nothing. You just have to be a brave girl sometimes, like I told the baby a thousand times that night.

Man does not live by wimpy coffee.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

She's got a man's nightshirt on and stockings with holes in them. Somebody else's tie, a gold and green chevroned number, hangs around her neck and just at this moment it looks like a king's mantle draped over her shoulders. Her hair's all loose, her lipstick and eyeliner gone a-roving. She's got a cigar in one hand and a jar full of gin in the other, and she's laughing, laughing like for once that damned chicken crossed the road for something really good.

Just slip on something black and low-cut, carve yourself the biggest goddamn slice of whatever cake they said you couldn't have, and be a VILLAIN for a night! Come on. You know they deserve it. You know they ALL deserve it. What's the use of all that rage you got if you don't take it out for spin?

I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.