Quotes About Strength

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

Pick your own act of defiance, something that says to you—and to others—that you won't go along with the hate.

When you fight back and win, even in small battles, it makes a difference in who you become. You're better for it. That's what persistence is about. It's a ferocious optimism.

Sometimes it pays to fight back, even when everyone says it would be better to give up.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?

The whole offensive culture of dieting seems invented as yet another way to make women smaller and weaker - to make us become less, quite literally. The starving self symbolizes a diminishing person, and really we ought to strive to be more, to have more strength and muscle and inner resolve - which is what we get from working out or playing a sport, and what we lose when we live in hunger.

All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.

No man is going to solve my problems, no one can rescue me, because I am too sick.

I don't want anyone feeling sorry for me. About anything. Don't apologize unless you have done something wrong. It is nasty to feel sorry for anyone for any reason because it pushes her away.

A woman who can handle a dog is pretty damn cool. If she can take care of such a demanding creature, most likely she can take pretty good care of herself.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

Never was there any one so beautiful as [he]... The wolves did not ravage, the frost winds did not bite...

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

One man alone can give up and subside into the cold and die, far more easily than two together, who will both brace and provoke each other, wrangle and support, give each other warmth and challenge each other's endurance. (The Virgin in the Ice, p. 87 of 200)

notwithstanding

Ellis Peters

Master Thomas, for the child that should be born to Aline and Hugh, for young Philip and the parents who had recovered him, for all who suffered injustice and wrong, and sometimes forgot they had a resource beyond the sheriff.