Quotes About Strength

It's scary, but I won't let fear stop me.

I know it's hard when you can't fix what's wrong for those you love. In those times, you have to be there as support to help them make it through.

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together...Layers, by their nature, are fragile things.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they're so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

Knowledge was a personal life preserver you could always count on when you were swimming in the deep end

When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.