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Quotes About Courage

She thought now it was time to be tested, to make decisions and find her own roads, to stop falling where she was told to fall and to stand only when allowed to stand.
~ Shannon Hale
Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.
~ Shannon Hale
You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.
~ Shannon Hale
This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!
~ Shannon Hale
giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.
~ Shannon Hale
My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.
~ Shannon Hale
Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand
~ Shannon Hale
Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.
~ Shannon Hale
Courage is not fearlessness.
~ Shannon Hale
Come on, she willed through the care window. Come on, change me. I dare you.
~ Shannon Hale
Run." Raven took off, Apple on her heels, screaming as a swarm of flying, crawling, leaping insects chased them. "Aah!" Apple screamed. "Aah! I mean, La la la!" Apple sang desperately. "LA LA LA LA!
~ Shannon Hale
Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.
~ Shannon Hale
Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.
~ Shannon Hale
You slew Khasar, you healed me, and you have perfect ankles. I really don't think this is a question we need to debate. -Khan Tegus
~ Shannon Hale
Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.
~ Shannon Hale
Hunter and his father leaped into Huntsman Defense Stance—ax in one hand, the other hand held out, knees slightly bent, hair tossed by the breeze. They stood back-to-back, turning, listening to determine direction.
~ Shannon Hale
Once upon a time, there was a girl with red hair who believed her destiny was to ride alone. But... at the final moment, when all seemed to be lost, she cried out for help. The many friends she had made... came running. After all, no one's destiny is to be alone.
~ Shannon Hale
Hope was as confusing as [Trecon = 5?TA2(L/12)3].
~ Shannon Hale
I should go," said Miri. Timon stepped forward
~ Shannon Hale
I'm going to be a tilting boat," he said. "I'm going to be taking in a lot of water, and perhaps I'll keel over or perhaps I'll sink." "That was quite a metaphor." "I can't talk about it straight. It hurts.
~ Shannon Hale
Rin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead.
~ Shannon Hale
He raised his bowl of milk tea. "Let's drink to stubborn mothers.
~ Shannon Hale
To keep telling my story seems like the last bit of living I can still do. I feel like a dragonfly clinging to a grass blade in a windstorm, but I can't just let go. I can't. I stare at the candle, how the flame shivers and bends when the wick is too long. The light is small and unsteady, but unless it's snuffed out, it'll keep burning for as long as the wick runs.
~ Shannon Hale
Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.
~ Shannon Hale