Quotes About Strength

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.

Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.

She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.

In addition to all the other kinds of magic there is Yes Magic and No Magic, and Mallow is wonderful fierce at No Magic. Sometimes that is the last magic you can hold on to, when all the rest has gone.

I have survived, but I have not been spared.

She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.

it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

Your love is a terrible thing," November says. "It sits heavy. It stings. It cuts." She shrugs. "I am Casimira." "I don't know if I can bear it." "I would not have chosen you if you could not. You will get stronger. You will grow calluses.

She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart—something irremovable and constant.

Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.

But you are not one of us. For you, this thing is irreversible except by death, and not only the flesh is altered. Only the strongest of you can resist the collapse of the soul into the form; the mind is lazy, it naturally imitates the body. I have known none of you yet who can remain human when they wear another skin. But the thing is yours to do, if you should wish to do it.

Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore.

Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?

Isn't that cheating? Tfu! She expects you to cheat! Masha, whom I love: These tasks do not test your strength or your wiliness; they test your ability to cheat, which is the truest measure of a devil. They are designed to be impossible if you play fair.

It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.

I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head.

Careful," Lye said. "I am fragile." "That's all right," said September suddenly, feeling the warm cinnamon courage of her bath bubble up inside her, fresh and bright. "I'm not.