Quotes About Strength

The best she could do: waelcyrge did not die unless until they grew tarnished.

Pinion folded around her, cushioned her fall, so the impacts of shattering branches that would have also shattered her bones only knocked the wind out of her.

Fortunately, in partial gravity, one-handed push-ups aren't as hard as they are planet-side.

Elena put one hand out, pressing her palm to the bole of a tree to steady herself, and sighed as if she could put all her pain and worry onto the wind and let it be carried away.

Vincent stood, all lithe grace, and let his hand rest warmly on Michelangelo's shoulder.

In his second night in his room in the Salt Tower, Kit had tried to make his escape through the reflections in the narrow windows; he'd been unable to touch the power of the Darkling Glass at all, and he had wondered at how easily the iron rings on his fingers quelled all the strength he knew he had in him.

The carved wood wore into his shoulder, a reassuring discomfort. He pressed himself against it, parting the bed curtains, and with his right eye saw the light of strength dimming from a man he used to fancy was his lover.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

Pearl earrings stood in stark contrast to the twisted iron torc that rode her throat, matte black roundelles flanking the notch of her collar bone.

Behind him, a woman's voice rises, fluid and mellifluous on words he does not understand, until Will pushed himself upright with both hands flat on the dew and got his feet under him in a crouch.

He couldn't quite manage the defiant glance over his shoulder and the lift of his chin he would have liked, but his voice stayed steady and that was a victory in itself.

We can endure this. We endure. We live. We cooperate if we must. And then we find our vengeance.

He's so bad he can be sweet as ice cream every second and nobody forgets for any one of those seconds that he's the baddest man in the room. That's what I like. Men who could beat up my dad. They make me feel safe.

Muire closed her eyes and spoke around a heart's denial.

The sea broke over her bulk and foamed around his bare feet, drawing the sand from under his soles as if sucked by mouths.

His faded jeans hugged his taut hindquarters and strong thighs with much affection, and his denim work shirt strained against the muscles of his broad back.

Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn't exercise it very often.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength from the dark, while hope thrives in the light.

and Matchett, who was as strong as a nigger

Better to be rooted out hurt, bleeding, alive, like the daisies from the turf, than blow faintly away across the lawn like a straw.

wilderness—wild and brutal and glorious—

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you're in trouble, just remember you're your own best friend.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.