Quotes About Strength

It can't rain all the time.

Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

You don't speak much, do you? ter Borcht said, circling him slowly. Fittingly, Fang said nothing. Vhy do you let a girl be de leader? ter Borcht asked, a calculating look in his eye. She's the tough one, Fang said. Dang right, I thought proudly. Is dere anysing special about you? asked ter Borcht. Anysing vorth saving? Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.

I want to be able to see stuff, Iggy said. Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

I'm gonna barf, I whispered to Fang,wiping my sweaty hands on my jeans. You'll be fine, he whipered back. You always are. I'm gonna die, I moaned. You can't die, he said a hint of a smile in his voice.You're the indesructible Max.

Don't be afraid." "I hear voices," Iggy said. "Be very afraid.

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

Max-Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

Another day. Get up and face it.

What test? Asked Nudge. Max, you're incorruptible. Only by power. I said. You haven't tried chocolate yet.

Harden your heart.

Max-I'm not going to die today.

And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.

I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

James Patterson

Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right?

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself