Quotes About Strength

When everything shows down and my muscles are hot and strong, and the blood beats in my veins like champagne I feel this vast delight. Everything is beautiful and precious, and so clear. Light gets this bluish tinge and I feel like a hummingbird among elephants, untouchable.

This boy is a man. Twice the man you are. He is kind where you're cruel, he is strong where you're weak, and he knows full well how to make a girl want to be got, and to get her. And when he does, he can last long, longer, I wager, than you! He is Peretur Paladn Hir, and he is destined for greatness!

It would be so easy-my right hand on his right wrist, pull and step, left arm across his throat, whirl and spread my arms, like a dance, and he would drop spine-down over my thigh, snap: less than three seconds, start to finish-but a broken boy would help nothing.

All the things that make you you, your clarity and solidity and certainty, come from this. You can actually reach out and touch your past. It's in the wood, in the cold, clear water of the fjord and the hard rock of the mountain. And the wood and the fjord and the mountain are in you, clear and strong and massive." She looked at me then, reached out to trace the line of my cheekbone, my nose, my jaw. "Aud, Aud, Aud.

Now he understood why her hounds spoke of her as they did: not human, more like a wall, a tide, the waxing of the moon. A force of nature. Implacable, untouchable.

Even though your sister is now the overking's peaceweaver, we must show our strength and make our persuasions in person.

Showing off her best points was a habit that saved her life more than once.

This is your body. Yours. No one but you has the responsibility to keep it, to keep yourself, whole. If someone pins you to the ground, what will you do?

For one brief moment the three of them were one, and they stood against six attackers almost without effort.

They would write songs of what followed: the horses dancing; the spears flickering like swords, faster than the eye could see; Llanza's perfect seat; Peretur's grace, lithe as a cat; the sweat running down their mounts' flanks. The crack of Llanza's spear as it split.

Under the ferocity Fursey heard the howling loneliness. But ferocity was winning.

The realization of what she had done, the exhilaration of her own strength rushed into her, like champagne rushing to fill lead crystal. She shimmered with it, she fizzed. I wanted to lift her in both hands, drink her down, drain her, feel the foam inside me, circling around heart, lungs, stomach.

Was it her true nature to take from others her own power?

When she climbed out of the car, I saw the difference, the sleekness, her buttocks as ripe as mangoes, her arms and legs plump and muscled.

And when she, too, goes back to her mother, cheeks blooming fresh with wild roaming, her mother weeps and begs her to stay close, stay safe-for the girl is hers, her gift, her treasure, her payment, all she has-but the girl feels her growing strength; she must run, she must climb, she must test her power.

It was good to feel the living movement between two bodies, to feel the feedback, play with some of the strength.

I learnt that pain is only a message. You can choose to ignore the message. Your body can do a great deal more than it wants you to know.

Hild unpinned her sleeves to show arms tan and tight as a stripling's wore a light cloak in royal blue flung back from her shoulder gesith-style, and tucked her hair behind her ears, to remind them of fighting man with greased-back hair

She understood why a king often threatened violence. It felt good, and it worked.

He was younger than old Yvain, his voice as supple as a withy-wound chariot.

She met his gaze, agate to jet. She would not flinch, not even if the water turned into a river of fire. She stepped forward, bent her head, and set her will.

What other pearls of wisdom has she dropped in your ready ear?

She might wish Bony were bigger, and she might wish for a shield, but this was what she had.

Here on her own turf she looked different: more whole and competent; denser somehow.