Quotes About Courage

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.

I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.

What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.

Guard your mortal heart.

You love him, too, I think. You've loved him since before you were a prisoner of the Undersea. You loved him when you agreed to marry him. Once this is over, I will find the bravery to tell him.

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast? Me.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

Stop waiting. Sink those pretty little teeth into something.

What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?

Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you." "What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy." "I'm crazy," he reminded her.

Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else.

It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it's like hope.

This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.