Quotes About Strength

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.

There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.

But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me...No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

What is broken can also be mended.

This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

She, who prided herself on her tough exterior, could always be undone by the beauty of flight.

even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.

I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger. Ruin is the milk all witches must drink; it's the lesson they learn and the diet they're fed upon.

I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.

I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.

Witches are made, not born.

Hard times make for simple minds

He thought about how love could move you in ways you wouldn't have imagined, one foot in front of the other, even when you thought you had nothing left inside.

A decade or two on the rocks gives a person character. Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.