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Quotes About Bravery

In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors her and she shoots him, it is regarded as justifiable and she is praised for her bravery.
~ Jennifer Ashley
There was a time for slaying dragons, and a time for holding on to someone and making the terror go away.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Beth couldn't fight anymore. Her whole body wanted simply to stop. She'd die here in Thomas's little church, not ten yards from the churchyard where Thomas lay. She thought she heard the lectern door squeak, and she saw Thomas standing by it in the white cassock she'd darned so often. His dark hair was gray at the temples, his kind eyes so blue. "Be brave, my Beth," she thought he said." It's almost over.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Sure," she answered. "Just give me a minute." A minute to jump to my death off my balcony.
~ Jennifer Ashley
For crissakes, Talia," Adam rumbled at her neck. "Let it come. I'm not afraid of the dark.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Don't be normal, Tiger. Promise me?
~ Jennifer Ashley
If ye get into trouble, if one of the English soldiers grabs ye, jab this into him, hard as ye can, and run like the devil. Don't be squeamish or hesitate, because he'll do much worse to you." Mary nodded, her eyes grave. "I understand." She did, the little love. Mal pretended to shiver. "Now I know why Englishmen don't let their ladies fight alongside them. The women would take over in a heartbeat.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Fear of dying young isn't an altogether bad thing. Sometimes it makes you try what you might otherwise delay.
~ Jennifer Coburn
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway! It was the first time I'd ever contemplated that fear and action could coexist peacefully. I always thought I had to get over my fear before doing anything, but according to this Dr. Jeffers, I should embrace my fear rather than swatting it away like a swarm of flies. It
~ Jennifer Coburn
Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Love is not for cowards.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She never forgot the day she'd met him, or how his friends had told her to be more than pretty. She never forgot Elizabeth, Yennenga, Abhaya Rani. She wore his gold coin on a chain around her neck until the day she died. But the thing she treasured most was the memory of his smile, a smaile that was a wink and a dare. A wild road on a windy night. A kiss int he dark. A smile that had given her all she'd ever wanted-a chance. A chance to be herself.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Most people will fight when there is some hope of winning, no matter how slim. They are called brave. Only a few will keep fighting when all hope is gone. They are called warriors.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I want to have hope, I can't help it, but I'm almost afraid to," Serafina
~ Jennifer Donnelly
So, besides Ava being lost in a swamp full of homicidal maniacs, and Astrid swimming off to meet the king of homicidal maniacs, what other insurmountable problems are we facing tonight? - Sera
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She was sorry for all the grim-tale girls locked in lonely towers. Trapped in sugar houses. Lost in the dark woods, with a huntsman coming to cut out their hearts.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Know that you are a warrior... and that a true warrior carries love, courage, and her conscience into battle, as surely as she carries her sword.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Love is a fearsome thing. It is braver than generals, stronger than fortresses. It opens graves and pulls rings off corpses. It sits up through the long, lonely night with a failing child. It fashions hearts out of scraps and bits and rusty things and makes them beat on, no matter how many times they break.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sólo ella sabía que a la locura del mundo uno sólo puede enfrentarse con más locura.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
How could she explain to them what her swashbuckler clothes meant to her?... She saw herself - being braver and stronger than she'd ever thought she could be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I AM ORFEO FEAR ME
~ Jennifer Donnelly
No tengo miedo de un ejército de leones dirigidos por una oveja. Tengo miedo de un ejército de ovejas dirigido por un león.
~ Jennifer Donnelly