Quotes About Strength

Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, "And what will you give me in return?

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.

She didn't mean anything, Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn't been for her.

But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.

It's always mattered a lot to me to keep a wall up round my dignity, even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing's changed and it's all still horrible but you can't cry forever, so there's nothing to do but go on.

I wasn't alone anymore. They were saving me, and I was going to save them. It felt more like magic than magic.

Why don't I just kill them all as they come in? Orion said, without the slightest doubt in his ability to kill a billion mals. Shut up, Lake, I said, having many doubts about his ability to kill a billion mals.

He made her give him gold just to live, as if she belonged to him because he was strong enough to kill her. My father was strong enough to kill me but that did not mean I belonged to him.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. And if there has been food in my house for you, then I am glad, glad with all my heart. I hope there will always be.

When I say us, what I mean is them. I felt fine. No; I felt like I'd woken up after a long sleep and had a good workout in the fresh air and a really nice stretch and was now contemplating with interest the idea of a hearty lunch. Sitting on edge in a classroom for hours surrounded by fluffy peeping freshmen waiting for one mal to pop out at me: nightmarish. Summoning a river of magma to instantly vaporize twenty-seven carefully designed attacks at once: nothing to it.

My heart broke, but I was not a young girl anymore, afraid of being trapped behind a door forever. I knew the door was safety, I knew the door would not always be closed, and I did not let her out.

My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.

I didn't want her to need to do things like that. I didn't want her to need a sword.

My darling girl, I love you, have courage, my mother wrote, and keep far away from Orion Lake.

Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.

there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo.

even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

It made me angry, because being angry was better than being afraid.

I wasn't sorry they didn't like me, I wasn't sorry I had been hard to them. I was glad, fiercely glad. They had wanted me to bury my mother and leave my father behind to die alone. They had wanted me to go be a beggar in my grandfather's house, and live the rest of my days a quiet mouse in the kitchen. They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better

He began to weep and make protests, but I didn't have the strength to

Sabes? Es casi admirable —dijo al cabo de un momento, con la voz menos temblorosa—. Estás medio muerta y sigues siendo la persona más borde que he conocido nunca. Y por cierto: de nada, otra vez.

You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.