Quotes About Strength

I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn't always being weak. Maybe it was shame that was the problem.

And to coddle your ego, I have made myself less. I have made myself small, I have kept my head down. But it wasn't enough to make you leave Taryn and me alone, so I'm not going to do that anymore. "I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance.

Believe what you can handle believing

It turned our that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

Dolerá. El dolor te hace fuerte.

How do people like us take off our armor? One piece at a time.

I'm not afraid," Zacharov says, still looking at Anton. "It takes guts to kill a man with your hands. You don't have the balls.

You will not always be so small or so frightened,' she told me. 'You are a queen.

I imagine what it would be like to have my own crown, my own power. Maybe I wouldnt have to be afraid to love him. Page 305

if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away. For many long days, I have been terrified, and now, when I ought to be feeling great, what i want to do is hide under a table in the brugh with Cardan until i can finally convince myself he's all right.

Sometimes he forgot how small she was, because her bravery loomed so large in his mind.

You think I'm weak.' 'You are weak,' I tell her. ''You're weak and pathetic and I-' 'I'm a mirror,' she shouts. 'I'm the mirror you don't want to look at.

Call's stomach felt as if it wanted to curl up inside him like a kicked puppy.

she could be more humiliated, it turned out that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

Then Ivan and Marya Morevna built a pyre and burned Koschei until he was ash. And then they lived happily, visiting each of Ivan's sisters and their bird-husbands, all of whom declared that Ivan did the right thing to risk so much for a woman as beautiful and fierce as Marya Morevna." "If she was so fierce, how come she didn't just save herself?" Tana asked.

Maybe my messed-up life has turned me into someone capable of doing messed-up things.

We have lived in our armour for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

I feel the stitches holding me together as though I am a rag doll with stuffing trying to leak out.

Let me be feared and never again afraid.

I didn't understand the horror of being so powerful and so utterly powerless all at the same time.

I have trained every day to be dangerous, and he is entirely in my power, yet I'm the one who is afraid.

You've only seen the least of what I can do.