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Quotes About Courage

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.
~ E. Lockhart
And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened. We should not let the family fall apart. We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.
~ E. Lockhart
She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
~ E. Lockhart
She looked the same, looked just like anyone, but she saw the world differently after that. To be a physically powerful woman—it was something. You could go anywhere, do anything, if you were difficult to hurt.
~ E. Lockhart
Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
~ E. Lockhart
I flinch. "Don't feel sorry for me, okay? Not ever. It makes my skin crawl.
~ E. Lockhart
They want you to be small and silent. Good was just another word for don't fight back.
~ E. Lockhart
Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.
~ E. Lockhart
I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die.
~ E. Lockhart
Always do what you're afraid to do
~ E. Lockhart
The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
You're like the warrior princess of the Tate universe," said Noel. He lowered his voice to sound like a TV announcer: "No matter what they said about her. No matter what people thought! Ruby Oliver was undaunted. She gave parties, she kissed other people's boyfriends, she held hands with strange men. In her magical silver dress, she kicked the asses of one and all who dared to stand in her way…
~ E. Lockhart
I will prove myself strong, when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave, when they think I am weak.
~ E. Lockhart
We didn't sob and bleed, we did something instead. Made a change." "Kind of,"says Mirren. "Are you kidding? We burned that fucking palace to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
Do Not Accept A Evil You Can Change
~ E. Lockhart
We should not let the family fall apart. We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
~ E. Lockhart
Here I stand frozen, when I deserve to burn.
~ E. Lockhart
F I suffer migraines I endure
~ E. Lockhart
It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.
~ E. Lockhart
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)
~ E. Lockhart
I will prove myself strong, when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave, when they think I am weak. (p.142)
~ E. Lockhart
Always do what you're afraid to do -Cadence (Cady)
~ E. Lockhart