Quotes About Courage

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

i salute your spunk, but question your sanity.

I'm coming with you," Kartik insists. "You'll get yourself killed," I argue. "Then it's a good day to die," he says

don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you." I

Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.

At first, I was scared to be alone. No routines. No rules. Just me. But I think... Taylor wiped a tear away. I think I was always in the jungle. Before. It was always there. I think I had to come out here to find the answer. And what did you find? I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves. Taylor stared off into the dark. Her face gleamed with tears. Snot ran over her lips. The judges won't like that answer. Nobody's judging you. Taylor choked on a sob. Always, she whispered.

I am beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and teachers and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

Sometimes, I wish we were girls again, safe. Mabel snorted in contempt. When has it ever been safe to be a girl?

Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.

There is strength in acceptance

Let's be brave girls, shall we?

This brings a fresh wave of tears. To my great surprise, Kartik wipes them away with his hand. Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye, he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he as said: Come here, my friend . I've never known a braver girl, he says.

Little Warrior: You can do this. I believe you can.

The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall.

It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.

Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery.

What place lay beyond the reach of evil?

Come along, ladies. Button up. The wind is brisk and takes no prisoners.

Small acts of resistance matter!

It reminds us that even in the midst of chaos and terror, there is the capacity for change.

She was only herself. Her one weapon was her fierce belief that ordinary people could come together and make a better world.

People you loved could be gone in a breath. So why didn't knowing that make it any easier to be vulnerable? To tell people that you loved them, that you were hurting, that you were afraid, or that, sometimes, at five in the morning, you were so alone in your skin that you watched the weak light play across the ceiling, willing it toward dawn?

But why on earth?" "When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear