Quotes About Strength

The wolves howl bluer than Billie Holliday, but they don't spoil my song.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

This silk tassel tree has grown up from his spine, the indigenous plants have flourished and died here around his ankles, the fox, sparrows and meadowlarks have nested in his hair, the rains and wind and sun have beaten down across the rigid expanse of his shoulders, and Luca has never moved. We are rocks.

To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.

Her body feels like cracked glass, already shattered, and held in place only by a trick of temporary gravity. One wrong move and she will come to pieces.

She feigns confidence in the way all mothers know how to do in front of their children. She wears the fierce maternal armor of deceit.

magic that's marginally maternal, but entirely female.

She wonders if he feels anything now, or if he's shut it all down, if Marta's death was too much for him, so he found a loophole, a way to opt out of humanity. She is stronger than he is; she feels every molecule of her loss and she endures it. She is not diluted, but amplified. Her love for Luca is bigger, louder. Lydia is vivid with life.

Pero no te preocupes, mi reina del alma—tu sufrimiento será breve.

The man's words have landed on her face and she does – she looks like an Aztec warrior.

She fights at every moment against the scream that pulses inside her like a living thing.

and at the hour of our

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Sen bir insan?n dostunun olmas? ne demek bilir misin? Her ?eyini söyleyebilece?i de?il, hiçbir ?ey söylemeyebilece?in birisinin olmas?. Birlikte susabilece?in biri. Her an ula?abilece?in bir dinlenme gibi. ??te, böyle bir ?eyim var benim. Her ?eyden daha sa?lam, daha de?erli. Böyle bir ?eye sahibim ben.

She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.

revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,

trampling-by-dog,

People find a way through just about anything.

It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Dents in your mutual armor. No wonder you both look battered.

She is bone-chilled and a bit battered, but she breathes.