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Quotes About Strength

The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare.
~ Nalini Singh
Leaving them alive would've been a sign of weakness, and Tatiana expects weakness from the 'emotional' races. What the bitch doesn't understand is that rage is an emotion, too.
~ Nalini Singh
She'd sensed from the start that he was no angel. Still, he'd attracted her, the changeling heart of her sensing a strength in him that would complement and nurture her own.
~ Nalini Singh
From here, the rocks looked like sharp teeth, ready to bite and tear and rip. She tightened her hold as the icy wind threatened to tumble her into their unforgiving jaws. "Where
~ Nalini Singh
Her. He was calling her ferocious.
~ Nalini Singh
Don't give the monsters the satisfaction of seeing you give up.
~ Nalini Singh
Is Imani scared of anyone? How did you describe her to me once? Ah yes. A grande dame who has no time for anyone's bullshit. That is Imani. Raphael wanted to smile. I have always liked her for that.
~ Nalini Singh
Sahara's fingers tightened on his arm. "You're mine." Simple, quiet words that were a punch to the chest. "I will fight for you, today, tomorrow, and all the tomorrows to come.
~ Nalini Singh
These Bellamy men, when they love, they go all in. And my poor Gregory, he couldn't survive losing his baby girl. It was the helplessness that got to him—not being able to fight her dragons for her, slay them.
~ Nalini Singh
even a tiny physical network connected by trust held a potent, raw power.
~ Nalini Singh
Pathetic, Charlotte. You are a pathetic excuse for a woman.
~ Nalini Singh
Charlie-mouse was not about to play with a predator who could eat her alive and not even notice the bones.
~ Nalini Singh
This was what it should be like. Family was the bedrock of life; that was what Tazia had always been taught, still what she believed. A person could weather anything so long as she had the strength of her family at her back. To be without family was to be a ghost, lost in the wilderness.
~ Nalini Singh
Fear is an intruder in your life, child. You must cast him out." -Bebe to Kaia
~ Nalini Singh
But can you take care of my sister? "Your sister can take care of herself." No matter how much he wanted to do the job for her. The wolf was alternately proud of her strength and frustrated by it. Perhaps it would be that way their entire life. Or, perhaps, they'd find a middle ground. "But I'd walk through fire for her.
~ Nalini Singh
My unshed tears had hardened to stone inside me.
~ Nalini Singh
Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.
~ Nalini Singh
Do you need tissues for your issues'? I have no idea where she picked it up from, but if only we could fix all our wounds with tissues.
~ Nalini Singh
The instant you run around anyone, Ari, you give them power,' my mother had said. Her lips on my cheek, her fingers around the thin stem of a cocktail glass, diamonds sparkling in the sun. 'Be the one who is pursued.
~ Nalini Singh
project. "You
~ Nalini Singh
The stairs were steel-reinforced slabs of concrete, worn down by years of foot traffic, each step canted a slightly different angle from its neighbours. I like that. I liked things that had been solidly made and that wore the evidence of hard use, of survival.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back... The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...
~ Nalo Hopkinson
We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, "Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man's terms, but on our own. It's not revenge, it's rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good." This
~ Nalo Hopkinson