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Quotes About Courage

We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.
~ Rachel Cohn
I am stronger than words and bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
~ Rachel Cohn
I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.
~ Rachel Cohn
Because I'm so tired of worshipping breakable things. Because I wanted to see the impulse through. Because I wanted to see the look on their faces. Because I wanted to do something that I've kept inside of me so they could see what's been inside me all this time.
~ Rachel Cohn
I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.
~ Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
Caterina, a great adventure is in store for you.
~ Unknown
We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.
~ Unknown
And I've learned that letting people get close to you doesn't always lead to pain. Some people are actually worth a risk.
~ Unknown
Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him.
~ Rachel Kadish
I don't think I'm strong enough," Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, "How do you think people get strong?
~ Rachel Kadish
You have a beauty of a sort," he said. "But more important than that, you have enough manly strength in you to match me.
~ Rachel Kadish
Truth-telling is a luxury for those whose lives aren't at risk.
~ Rachel Kadish
Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.
~ Rachel Kadish
Some women, Ester, like to believe their hearts are made of glass, which must shatter if they so much as think of a sin. Oh Ester, shatter
~ Rachel Kadish
The world too much hates a freed thought or heart.
~ Rachel Kadish
A woman may in some circumstances acquire what she desires without the protection of a man." She regarded Ester. "If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.
~ Rachel Kadish
What right have they to disdain a martyr?
~ Rachel Kadish
Don't--she bit her lip and held it. Don't turn your back just because it terrifies you. [...] I don't think I'm strong enough, Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, How do you think people get strong?
~ Rachel Kadish
There are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who are alive and those who are afraid
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
I'm diff rent! I'm diff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.
~ Rachel Simon
S]he spontaneously threw back her head and trumpeted,I'm diff rent! I'm diiff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.
~ Rachel Simon
For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.
~ Radclyffe Hall
What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.
~ Rafael Sabatini