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Quotes About Strength

Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees. But then she would remember that she had a plan.
~ Kate DiCamillo
It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They
~ Kate DiCamillo
Despereaux felt a very intense pain in his hindquarters.
~ Kate DiCamillo
A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned
~ Kate DiCamillo
There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?
~ Kate DiCamillo
You got to rescue yourself.
~ Kate DiCamillo
When the powerful are made weak, when they are revealed to be human, to have hearts, their diminishment is nothing short of terrifying.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Love is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains.
~ Kate DiCamillo
TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!
~ Kate DiCamillo
was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees.
~ Kate DiCamillo
To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.
~ Kate Elliott
The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
~ Kate Elliott
Even having only two arms he had a lean, powerful symmetry and grace of form.
~ Kate Elliott
In truth what had drawn my eye was the rear view of a young man stripped to the waist and plying an adze along a beam. I could not help but admire his muscled back.
~ Kate Elliott
I am like you, Bloodheart," he said, his voice hoarse; but his voice always was hoarse now, for he had survived worse injuries than these. The iron collar, and his chains, weighed heavily on his neck. "My heart rests not within me but with another, and she is far away from here. That is why you will never defeat me.
~ Kate Elliott
Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You
~ Kate Elliott
It is not in victory that you learn how strong you truly are.
~ Kate Elliott
What they do no' understand, they fear, and they hate what makes them afraid, for they think it is a sign o' weakness.
~ Kate Forsyth
Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?
~ Kate Forsyth