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Quotes About Strength

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.
~ Melina Marchetta
I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it
~ Melina Marchetta
Because your grief at what you saw in those moments was too much for her to bear. Your pain made her weak. Her pain made you strong. Light and dark. Dark and light.
~ Melina Marchetta
Jonah Griggs] is similar to a hawke and a wolf and Will Trombal – he mates for life.
~ Melina Marchetta
Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.
~ Melina Marchetta
Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
~ Melina Marchetta
If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.
~ Melina Marchetta
I think of those little sullen-faced Year Sevens back in high school and here are these people who have such a great spirit and so little.
~ Melina Marchetta
How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?
~ Melina Marchetta
It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.
~ Melina Marchetta
Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.
~ Melina Marchetta
Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories, Florenza of Nebia. Remember that, or you'll be vomiting for the rest of your life.
~ Melina Marchetta
If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.
~ Melina Marchetta
The need to lie by her side and gather her to him was so fierce that it made him weak.
~ Melina Marchetta
It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!
~ Melina Marchetta
You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.
~ Melina Marchetta
I remember on the day I was separated from Froi outside the Paladazzo, I learned that I could be loved. That was his greatest gift to me. From you, I learned that I could love my people. Don't ever underestimate the power of that.
~ Melina Marchetta
No llores —le dijo ella con dureza, aunque las lágrimas le cubrían su propio rostro—. No llores, Finnikin, porque si empezamos a llorar, nuestras lágrimas no acabarán nunca.
~ Melina Marchetta
sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.
~ Melina Marchetta
Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad.
~ Melina Marchetta
Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.
~ Melina Marchetta
and I cried because I was loved by two of the strongest women I would ever meet in my lifetime.
~ Melina Marchetta
It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.
~ Melina Marchetta
Never ,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
~ Melina Marchetta