Quotes About Strength

There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders weren't on my doctor's recommended list of activities, or if I was foolhardy to think I could lift a fifty-pound roll of tar paper into and then out of my car. I was going to do it because it sounded like a blast, like the best possible way to have fun.

You next, he said. Out of those clothes and into bed. She nodded but didn't move from Sally's side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require? I'm filthy. I'll ruin the new bed. I'll bring you some fresh water. I've no clothes to change into. His grin was downright wicked. I know. A short laugh escaped her.

Tillie studied her mother's face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.

Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

But the truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them. ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world? It couldn't, plan and simple.

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.

Supposedly she'd died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn't kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn't even been born.

He saw no sign of their Bible, either. If the Lord had failed to protect even the book of his own Word, this proved to Grainier that here had come a fire stronger than God.

Survival is the foundation of triumph.

What a pair of lungs!

He saw no sign of their Bible, either. If the Lord had failed to protect even the book of his own Word, this proved to Granier that here had come a fire stronger than God.

The feeling that he was afraid of me was invigorating.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.

God, what is going on? Why are You leaving me with the one man who has the power to break me?

The soles of her feet were summer-tough, numb to the jagged shells and bits of pinecone.

When you can't trust others, and you can't trust yourself, you can always trust God. He'll carry you through whatever comes your way.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

I had to travel, to distract the enchantments gathered in my brain. Over the sea, that I loved as if she'd wash me clean of stain, I saw the cross of consolation rise. I had been damned by the rainbow. Happiness was my fatality, my remorse, my worm: my life would be forever too immense to be devoted to strength and beauty. O Happiness! its tooth, killing sweetly, warned me at cock-crow

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

He had a punch like a bag full of cue balls.