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Quotes About Courage

You will not always be so small or so frightened,' she told me. 'You are a queen.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes he forgot how small she was, because her bravery loomed so large in his mind.
~ Holly Black
Brave. - Cassel, to Lila
~ Holly Black
Scared, silly-scared, scared, scared, scared," Lutie chanted against her neck.
~ Holly Black
if you live your life always afraid, always with danger on your heels, it is not so difficult to pretend away more danger. I know that, but I didn't think, of all people, Cardan would, too.
~ Holly Black
Then Ivan and Marya Morevna built a pyre and burned Koschei until he was ash. And then they lived happily, visiting each of Ivan's sisters and their bird-husbands, all of whom declared that Ivan did the right thing to risk so much for a woman as beautiful and fierce as Marya Morevna." "If she was so fierce, how come she didn't just save herself?" Tana asked.
~ Holly Black
Fight your fight,' she tells me. 'Let someone else worry about theirs.
~ Holly Black
What they don't realise 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 in to 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.
~ Holly Black
Let me be feared and never again afraid.
~ Holly Black
Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold.
~ Holly Black
He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.
~ Holly Black
I have trained every day to be dangerous, and he is entirely in my power, yet I'm the one who is afraid.
~ Holly Black
Do you seek out peril? One would think that years of being a mortal would have made you more aware of mortality.
~ Holly Black
Cosa sarei potuta diventare se avessi smesso di preoccuparmi della morte, del dolore, di tutto? Se avessi smesso di cercare un senso di appartenenza? Invece di avere paura, sarei diventata io quella da temere.
~ Holly Black
I'm fine,' Oak says, sliding off the horse and immediately collapsing onto the asphalt. 'Fine?' the knight echoes, eyebrows raised. 'I couldn't say it if it wasn't true,' says the prince, and manages to stagger to his feet. He leans heavily on a nearby car.
~ Holly Black
Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.
~ Holly Black
But I'm done with being weak. I'm done with being good. I think I'm going to be something else
~ Holly Black
What do you want?' I ask, digging in my pockets. I take out the swan-shaped scissors I stole from Habetrot. 'These are pretty.' 'Put them away,' he scoffs. 'It would be an insult to be stabbed by those.' 'Then do not court that fate,' I growl softly...
~ Holly Black
She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you." He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.
~ Holly Black
Maybe being human isn't always being weak.
~ Holly Black
Looking over at the lump of comforter and jackets and shadow where Gavriel was hiding, she took a deep breath. "I won't leave you," she told Aidan. "I promise." No one else was going to get killed today, not if she could save them. Certainly not someone she'd once thought she loved, even if he was a jerk. Not some dead boy full of good advice. And she hoped not herself, either.
~ Holly Black
How do people like us take off our armour? One piece at a time.
~ Holly Black
Charlie's fingers closed around the bat and she pushed herself to her feet, shaking with adrenaline and fear and rage. With no good ideas, she was going to go for the bad one. They better carve that on her tomb. The Charlie Hall credo.
~ Holly Black
Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary
~ Holly Black