Quotes About Courage

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Second thoughts? About the Squad?" She nodded. "I'm starting to think the CIA is seriously deranged for letting us do this," I told her, "but that doesn't mean I don't want to do it." I paused. "Actually, the fact that we probably shouldn't be doing this kind of makes me want to do it more." Zee snorted. "Adrenaline junkie," she accused.

Women shouldn't have to fade into the background to be safe.

Ready." Libby looked down at the water balloons she held in each hand–and at her twin tattoos: SURVIVOR on one wrist, and on the other ... TRUST.

You know what they say about baptisms and fire.

I was born ready!" Xander brandished his shield. He smiled a very Xander Hawthorne smile, then let his bravado falter. "But before we go, group hug?

I'm not scared of this place. I'm not afraid to learn how to think like a killer, and I'm not afraid of you. [Cassandra Hobbes]

An angel," I repeated. "Have you met me?" "You, as in the girl who threw herself into the line of fire on my behalf after having known me less than a day?" Lily asked innocently. "Or the one who spends hours discussing zombie-related military tactics with my younger brother?" She paused. "Or maybe the one who can't even let herself be angry that her mother's a piece of work who's been refusing her calls all month?" Ouch. Lily usually didn't go quite so clearly for the jugular.

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

You may be tested by the flames, but you need not burn.

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

It didn't matter if my ribs hurt. It didn't matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora's fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn't afford to be weak or human at a time like this.

Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.

I moved closer to Rebecca, whose arms were wrapped around her middle, like all she could do was stand there and just keep taking the blows.

This was the beginning - and I was ready to be bold".

If she could do it, there was no reason she shouldn't." -The inheritance games

If you let this be a game, it doesn't have to hurt.

My inner Boy Scout had to try." If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.

You may be tested by flames but you need not burn

No one is going to believe you chickened out of anything," he said. From the way he'd phrased that, you would have thought I was fearless.

Fear does that to a person: shrinks them down, makes them small and weak.

For everyone out there who has the good sense to be a little afraid when swimming in deep, dark water. You tell yourself there's nothing down there, but there is. There always is.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.