Quotes About Courage

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.

He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!

She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes.

What Aunt Tess loved to say was: "Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.

Whatever it is, you can live through it, and it ends.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Carlo is safe because I don't really love him that much. If he stopped wanting me around one day, it wouldn't be so terrible. I wouldn't die. Hallie, I realize how that sounds. I feel small and ridiculous and hemmed in on every side by the need to be safe. All I want is to be like you, to walk into a country of chickens and land mines and call that home, and have it be home. How do you just charge ahead, always doing the right thing, even if you have to do it alone with people staring?

Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.

To stand in the clear light of day, you once said. Unsheltered.

I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.

Sophie's mother had to leave her dad, to get sober. She says as long as you're living with an addict, you're addicted.

The pale-skinned boy stood shivering in water up to his waist, thinking these were the most awful words in any language: You will be surprised. The moment when everything is about to change.

This is all going to scare us to death," she said. "You and me. But we're still going to have to do it.

was after they discovered the world was round. I'm not scared of big words." "I didn't say you were." "You did, too! 'I realize you're no scientist, Miss Rawley

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.

That's a tarantula,' he said. 'You got to watch out for them suckers. They can jump four feet. If they get you, you go crazy. It's a special kind of poison' This I didn't believe. I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the week, don't we?

As to the career of avoiding making enemies. You can't dig any burrow deep enough. Might as well stand and look them in the eye.

So much of life with infirmity came down to dignity and will.

Around this time I made my plan. Dangerous possibly, crazy for sure. All I can say is, you try living in crazytown for a while and see what you cook up.

This is darkest Africa, where life roars by you like a flood and you grab whatever looks like it will hold you up.

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning.