Quotes About Courage

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")

I wouldn't know it until months later, but my father had kicked me out of the house not because I was a bum but because I was gay.

Intervention. Corny letters notwithstanding, they have guts. The person they're confronting might storm out of the room and never talk to them again, but at least they're rolling the dice.

Nothing feels better than being singled out by something that at best should fear you and at worst would like to eat you.

You're afraid of moths?" He nodded yes and winced a little. "But nobody's afraid of moths." "I am," he whispered, and he looked behind us, as if afraid that one might be listening.

I felt my eyes tear up, and as my vision blurred I considered all the people who had fought against this and thought, Take that, assholes.

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.

In fact, there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.

Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he'd have drown himself at high tide. My sister- so shy, so sincere- once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I've ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that's the most radical contradiction of ourselves.

Candor is key—being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

There were better things to do with life than giving in to the peer pressure of mortality.

Las cucarachas sobreviven, los héroes son aplastados.

Cuando llegara el día en que necesitara ayuda para hacerlo, abriría la ventana y acabaría con el cuento.

But what Lawson seems to have stressed most were the freedom from fear and the power of humility

The blacks or coloured people are treated more cruel by the white Christans of America than devils themselves ever treated a set of men, women, and children on this earth. - David Walker 1829

You don't pock with the Dark Lord of the Sixth, Julian said.

You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots?

And as she locked the door behind her, a deeply hidden part of her wondered uneasily if she was locking the wolf into its cage . . . or herself safely outside it.

But then she looked into the single brown eye of the gaunt, half-naked woman facing her, and a wolf looked back at her—a wounded pack leader, starved and weakened, who had been goaded and harried by the hounds on its back trail but would be harried no more. A wolf who would die where it stood rather than be driven further.

small craft had yet returned, so

My God, woman! Your life was destroyed. You've rebuilt a new one, a deeply productive one, without ever surrendering. You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living through the next three minutes were, but it didn't matter. They were all that stood between six hundred civilians and cold-blooded murder, and Alicia's green eyes were hard as she watched the gaps being punched through the western wall. Make it count, people, she said, almost conversationally.