Quotes About Strength

If you don't believe that, try taking away a wolf's mate. See how well that shit works for you.

How many bad things can happen to a person..." Lewis asked, musing, "before they start to lose their soul?

Pain will pull you down. It will break you. And when you lose everything else, it will be the only thing that never lets you go. It's a bitch I don't like. Better to not let anyone get close, huh? Better to not let the pain inside. Better to put up your wall and block everyone else from touching your heart.

His bigger body dwarfed hers, but he'd always been so careful when they touched. When they made love. His strength had always been in check.

A woman could do a whole lot in this world without a heart.

She'd fight until she was broken. She would NOT give up.

You have to fight to live.

She was a bit thinner, and there was a new delicacy to her that hadn't been there before. Probably because of the recent attack she'd suffered. He'd heard that Rachel had been in the hospital. A knife attack. Some crazed fool had attacked Rachel in her own apartment. He'd been furious at the news. No one else was supposed to kill Rachel. She was his.

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. We define ourselves.

I'm the guy that you come to when you need shit taken care of. You want a body hidden? I'll bury it. You want me to take down the bastard hurting you? I'll destroy him. Ride or fucking die, that's what I am to you. I will never choose anyone over you. And I won't make the same mistakes again this time. You can count on it.

I learned to fight hard and to fight dirty when I was a SEAL. There is nothing I won't do to protect you. No line I won't cross. If you believe nothing else, I say, believe this…you will come first for me.

Oh that was good. Reminded her why she'd gone with him that first night. He'd been tall, strong, and she'd taken one look at him and realized-The kind of man who never fears. A man who fights. Who wins. A guy strong enough to face the dark with her.

Danton himself was an astonishing man, with a face so scarred and ugly that it by-passed the normal rules of beauty and had an attractiveness of its own. At two he had been gored in the face by a cow, trampled by a herd of pigs at five, disfigured by small pox when he was ten, and kicked in the face by a bull when he was fourteen.

I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym.

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the wind. If the wind blew, the grasses had to bend with it.

Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held.

Dicey felt a great weight settle on her shoulders. She tried to shrug it off, but it wouldn't move.

perché esistono dei mostri che nessuno può vincere in un combattimento faccia a faccia.

È difficile comprendere da dove provenga quest'orgoglio dei poeti, se sovente si vergognano che appaia la loro debolezza.

You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me, for you was lethal.