Quotes About Courage

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

Froi woke to see five faces staring down at him. "You fainted," Lirah said. "No, I didn't." "Yes, you did," Gargarin argued. "You climbed down well enough, but the moment we touched the ground, you fainted," Finnikin said. "I've never fainted a day in my life.

Fear's good. It keeps interesting

I met you at the cornerstone on the highway to bedlam./Walked with you to the pinnacle, along that ledge to hell,/Traveled along the passageway of all things aching,/But would crawl with you if you wanted me to/On the steeple point to hope./So we can tip the stars and hold the moon,/Graze the sun, but make it soon.

If I asked you to stay, would you?" I ask later as we're standing by his car. "Maybe I would, but I don't think you'd ask me. But I swear to God that I'll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything. . . ." I shake my head again. "You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

You returned for me, Finn. After everything you said." Finnkin's eyes were fierce with emotion. "Do you honestly think I would have left you out here, knowing there was a small army in the vicinity?" "I'm surprised you were able to convince Perri and your father to return." Finnikin laughed. "All I had to do was stop the horse and say, 'I think...' and they were racing back into the woods to you.

Melina Marchetta

I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it

There was this time when I looked at a picture and thought it was a man with horns, but when I stepped up to study it I could see it was actually a butterfly with wings standing up straight. That's what happens when you stop looking at things from far away. My advice… look at whatever you're scared of from a different angle. Look at it up really close.

Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso?

They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. So I dance.

And then he told me to close my eyes. And I think I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Do what I don't got the strength to do myself

It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!

No llores —le dijo ella con dureza, aunque las lágrimas le cubrían su propio rostro—. No llores, Finnikin, porque si empezamos a llorar, nuestras lágrimas no acabarán nunca.

All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all.

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.

It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

Sir Topher finally looked up. "Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it." "Then I choose to drown," Finnikin said. "In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.