Quotes About Strength

Worse is having my soul ripped from my body, he told her. We, who are told we have no soul. I found mine nearly seven years ago when a kid walked into the roughest, dirtiest, meanest bar I know of, to save her friends. If I lose her, I lose who and what I am.

If we were perfect, we'd be Wolves, right?

You are mine! Mine by God, and no one but no one will hurt, abuse, or dare to fucking harm what's mine, ever again.

Sir. I could use a crutch." His knees gave way, but the captain was there, his arms going around the taller man's bony body, holding him to him as he shook with silent sobs. "I have you, son," he whispered. "I'll be your crutch.

No, she didn't want him; she loved him. She loved him with a strength she hadn't believed in herself. That was, she'd loved him until this morning. Until he had offered her marriage, without the love. "Want isn't enough.

Nothing is unobtainable to the sword.

THE OLD MAN with a hammer and the one-eyed man with a spear

To protect yourself, you must believe in yourself. Nothing will encourage that belief more than knowing you are prepared.

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me

Lorena McCourtney

I might not be able to break the Gunderson curse, but I can break the curse of having a friend like you.

Buck up, suck it up, don't fuck it up

The only thing a bully understands is another bully.

A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn't take long to come up with an answer. "That's easy. I belong to a book club.

With feminine vengeance)

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

MAMA Well, little boys' hides ain't as tough as Southside roaches. You better get over there behind the bureau. I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, he says. Say: Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough. Show him your bicep.

Every family is a family of alligators.

Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength of the psychopathic brain. Or the psychopathy of the animal brain. An admission of guilt would knock the strength right out of you—making it easier for them to twist your arms behind you and put the handcuffs on.

We got hard hearts, she said with an accent that wasn't really any particular accent at all. She wasn't good at accents.

But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.