Quotes About Strength

I don't care what you feel about magic, you must experience the power of Anterity. It is the lake of the warrior, and you need that force within you.

Her daughter was not related in blood to Ellony Leckery, yet it seemed as if she'd somehow managed to inherit her namesake's rather fey nature. Pharinet, Valraven's sister, insisted young Ellony was far stronger, braver, and more robust than the original, but there was no doubt she was highly sensitive, and sometimes this affected her badly.

I will slither from his grasp. I will be like the Caradorean mist. If someone punches me, they will hit only air. I cann't be broken by force. I will bend and twist and float away. If he cuts me with a sword, I will laugh. If he cuts me with words, I will simply shrug. He will laugh at what happens to me at the fire pits and I will smile and shrug. It doesn't matter.

How much longer will you stand, dark lady? I admire the way you cling to life, even though half your roots are now nothing more than lifeless twigs.

Life would become difficult again for a while, but I knew I'd have the strength to face it.

You are nearly a woman, and a wondrous woman at that!

Tayven was so young and the strength that shone from him was more pathetic than total vulnerability, because he'd had to learn to breathe it, sleep it.

How small, how fragile a human being was. No matter how powerful you might feel, whether magically or physically, ultimately others, in concert, could always stamp out your life.

Tahira was tall and unbent by age, although her advanced years showed in the weathering of her face. Long, grey hair that looked as strong as steel wire curled down over her shoulders. She wore heavy jewelry of malachite inlaid silver at her throat and wrists, around her spare shoulders hung a large, fringed shawl of red and yellow silk. She listened without expression as Qimei explained what he required of her.

I didn't want to be a pretty bauble. I craved to be far more dangerous." "There are few things more dangerous than a pretty bauble, as Almorante well knew. By now, I expect Tatrini does as well." "I have fulfilled my vocation then.

Too long has she lamented over her defeat, which her pride brought upon her. You are touched by her feelings, and do not know it, yet you are strong and can overcome the weakness.

It's like having a demon in a bottle. It's power, Jordan but, like a demon, unpredictable.

A time had come, or was coming. He could feel drawing closer, feel its predator breath on his back. So he must face, and perhaps take strength from the power that had awakened here. e must access it fully. Perhaps then, the gate of his dreams and nightmares would open and the void be sensed within himself could be filled.

His own madness was the last thing he feared.

She regarded herself as a true professional; 50 percent carbon-steel image, honed to glittering perfection, 45 per cent killer class business woman, 5 per cent dangerous psychotic.

Pharinet was nineteen years old, alone and in love. Once Valraven had left her world, she realized this forbidden feeling had been within her for many years, disguised as something else. She was appalled: at herself and the strength of the emotion. This was the sea made manifest in her body, churning and heaving.

I felt Beth flinch against me, and longed to reach for his hand, but I wanted to betray no sign of weakness.

We concluded they must have a proud and defiant streak within them, and must, in some ways, enjoy their precarious existence.

If a woman knows secret richness touches her flesh, she walks taller.

Where had the delicate silent child gone, who'd been more like a mute mermaid stranded on land than a human being? What he saw now was a determined young woman who despite the passion of her words spoke clearly and firmly.

Daniel was his strength, his psychic eye. But it had been plucked out.

Calling them creatures merely assists them to intimidate you.

Othman knew he was powerful, and often subjugated people and spirits weaker than himself, but his was a lazy sense of power. He balked at confronting entities that might be a match for him.

I cannot lead an army, and fighting disgusts me, but destiny, or the forces of chaos, saw fit to equip me in other ways.