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Quotes About Strength

I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubborness.
~ Holly Black
I'm fine,' Oak says, sliding off the horse and immediately collapsing onto the asphalt. 'Fine?' the knight echoes, eyebrows raised. 'I couldn't say it if it wasn't true,' says the prince, and manages to stagger to his feet. He leans heavily on a nearby car.
~ Holly Black
Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.
~ Holly Black
He gives me a smile, a strange light in his eyes. 'If we were capable of putting mistrust aside, we might be a formidable pair.
~ Holly Black
But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.
~ Holly Black
I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.
~ Holly Black
But I'm done with being weak. I'm done with being good. I think I'm going to be something else
~ Holly Black
El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de conservar.
~ Holly Black
Maybe being human isn't always being weak.
~ Holly Black
How do people like us take off our armour? One piece at a time.
~ Holly Black
Perhaps I cannot be glamoured, but that doesn't mean I cannot be broken." -The Wicked Prince
~ Holly Black
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.
~ Holly Black
If i pretend not to be scared, I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.
~ Holly Black
Who would desire to be human? Human hearts break. Human bones shatter. Human skin can tear.
~ Holly Black
Taryn glowers, putting her chin up. 'I didn't want to fight.' 'Then you ought not to do so in the future,' Madoc says. 'There's no point in fighting if you're not intending to win.
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.
~ Holly Black
Cardan hätte der Junge aus dem Herzen aus Stein aus Aslogs Geschichte sein sollen, doch irgendwie hatte er es zugelassen, dass sein Herz zu Glas geworden war. Mit jedem Atemzug spürte er die zerbrochenen Scherben in seiner Lunge.
~ Holly Black
If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse - Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince
~ Holly Black
We can still walk away," Walk away. Wasn't that what she'd tried to do for years?
~ Holly Black
As I thought. I didn't appreciate you properly. I dismissed your desire for knighthood. I dismissed your capacity for strategy, for strength- and for cruelty. That was my mistake, and one I will not make again.' I am not sure if that's a threat or an apology.
~ Holly Black
Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." The Cruel Prince
~ Holly Black
Against my shoulder she whispers, 'He's flint, you're tinder.
~ Holly Black
You did a brave thing. Be glad of that. Not everyone can be brave. I'm not always.
~ Holly Black