Quotes About Courage

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you. Why? is the wrong question. Ask Why not?

THE SUFFRAGETTES FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO SPEAK. THEY WERE ATTACKED, ARRESTED, AND THROWN IN JAIL FOR DARING TO DO WHAT THEY WANTED. LIKE THEY WERE, I AM WILLING TO STAND UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE. NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE SPEECHES. I CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT.

The opposite of innocence is not sin. Dearly beloved, the opposite of innocence is strength.

It takes more to scare me now.

No use crying, just get on with your life.

THE MAN THAT SAYS SLAVES BE QUITE HAPPY IN SLAVERY—THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO BE FREE—THAT MAN IS EITHER IGNORANT OR A LYING PERSON. —MARY PRINCE, BORN 1778, THE FIRST WOMAN TO WRITE ABOUT HER LIFE IN SLAVERY

Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.

We're all born to fight, but few are ever trained. Instead, they tell us Be nice.

You can only be brave if you're scared.

I am on top of the highest mountain. The icy ground is shaking, an earthquake, the world beneath me opening up with fire, steel arms ready to pull me down. I have to move. I can't stay here anymore. I throw myself down the mountain and open my mouth.

Laurie Halse Anderson

We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.

And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

Now I knew. I would fight the eagle and the chains and that mountain as long as I had breath.

Laurie Halse Anderson

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting it. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Don't forget how to be gentle, she warned. Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

The only way to achieve freedom is to fight for it.

Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita. Danzavamo con le streghe e baciavamo i mostri. Ci trasformammo in ragazze d'inverno e, quando lei cercò di andar via, la spinsi di nuovo nella neve perché avevo paura di restare da sola.

Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

It's harder to take a punch than to give one.

Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it