Quotes About Strength

Does she make the heavens fall? Yes, she pulls down everything. Molinari nodded. It's a psionic talent she has... it's called being a woman.

Tears began to surge up into her eyes, and she found herself doubling up her fists, with the thumbs inside, as she had done as a child; she felt her jaw wobble, and when she spoke her voice could hardly be heard.

When you are Atlas you must carry a heavy load and if you drop it a lot of people suffer...

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

I couldn't do that. How can you live like that? You've got to have people you can depend on, somebody strong, somebody to take care of you. This is a big frigid world, completely bleak and hostile and empty of warmth. You know what happens to you if you let go and fall?

You shouldn't be frightened so easily. Or life is going to be too much for you.

Let people call me crazy; fuck them.

shoulder blades like broken wings.

it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy

Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

Well, said Mary, love is ferocious, too.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.

I wish... she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.

She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.

Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

Like a wave that has been building it's strength over a thousand miles of ocean, and which makes little stir in the deep water, but which, when it reaches the shallows rears itself high up into the sky, terrifying the shore dwellers, before crashing down on land with irresistible power - so Iorek Byrnison rose up against Iofur, exploding upward from his firm footing on the dry rock and slashing with a ferocious left hand at the exposed jaw of Iofur Raknison.

The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind.

Oak bark, spider silk, ground moss, saltweed— grip close, bind tight, hold fast, close up, bar the door, lock the gate, stiffen the blood-wall, dry the gore-flood.

I think Lyra's braver than me; I think she's the best friend I ever had.

The strength was draining out of him minute by minute. Maybe he'd never move again.