Quotes About Courage

But there was a definite sense that all bets were off now. The line she had so carefully toed all her life was just a smudge in the dirt behind her. Bea did not feel inclined to look back. Life was new. Not good. Just new.

It was actually harder to think about moving forward into whatever unknown situation they had planned for me than to ditch out and go back to what I knew. What I knew was terrible, but at least I knew it, and there's something that's almost a comfort in that.

I shall die, but . . . that is all that I shall do for Death.

It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you.

decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

Who knows why people are scared of things, right? If

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

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

Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin.

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.

Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Love rarely waits for permission.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.

In addition to all the other kinds of magic there is Yes Magic and No Magic, and Mallow is wonderful fierce at No Magic. Sometimes that is the last magic you can hold on to, when all the rest has gone.