Quotes About Strength

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." ? Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Kill him before he makes you love him.

When you're in love, you can handle almost anything as long as you can spend some time with your loved one.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

was invincible.

Holly Jacobs

This ancient Pinto was held together with sheer willpower and a whole lot of prayer. But she wasn't going to let her old jalopy ruin her perfect mood either.

Any family can fall apart, Annie. It's those that manage to stay together after surviving what life throws at them that deserve a little extra respect.

She understood now that knowing when to walk away and when to hunker down and refuse to leave were equally difficult decisions to make in a marriage; that going back didn't have to mean settling; and that the most fulfilling times weren't always before a storm, but sometimes long after the dust had settled, when you were able to lift your chin and see what was left standing so you could wrap yourself around it with all of the wonder it deserved.

She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.