Quotes About Strength

He does not mean it does not hurt. He does not mean we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

Even in her pain, she commanded the room, drawing all the light to herself, leeching the world around her pale as mushrooms.

would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

My hands were cut almost to blood by jagged shards of rock. My feet left stains where they stepped. The pain was welcome, ordinary and clean. So easy to bear it was laughable.

He did not gleam like gold. He was not polished and perfect. But he was the same all the way through, like a block of marble cut whole from a quarry P.196

Contemplé su noble rostro; noble no por su belleza, sino porque, como el buen metal, había sido templado y golpeado hasta volverse fuerte.

Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,

all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

Such patience mortals must have, I thought, to drag themselves through it hour after hour.

Even a best iron grows brittle with too much beating

On her chest shone her famous aigis, leather armor fringed with golden threads. It was said to be made from the skin of a Titan that she had flayed and tanned herself.

Es un arma, un asesino. No lo olvides. Puedes usar una lanza como cayado para los paseos, pero eso no va a cambiar su naturaleza.

I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry that you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak. But you were wrong.

Einen perfekt austarierten Bogen hatte Odysseus sie genannt. Einen Fixstern. Eine Frau, die sich selbst genau kennt.

Si dice che le donne siano creature delicate, come fiori, come uova, come qulsiasi cosa che possa essere schiacciata in un momento di negligenza. Se mai ci avevo creduto, non era più così.

You are braver than most gods then. I once saw Aphrodite leave her son to die on the field over a scratch.

There was a wildness in me, of hope and terror.

I feel like I would eat the world raw.

And I have never been a coward.

Madeline Miller

There are no bargains between lions and men

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

Bir kayal???n tepesindeki bir ?ahin gibi harekete haz?r oldu?umu hissediyordum. Pençelerim hala kayay? tutuyordu ama zihnim havalanm??t?.