Quotes About Strength

Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't." "You either let it break you, or you don't.

Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.

Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.

Thea isn't a girl. She's a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.

I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

It figured--the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet.

I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing myself off to it, I pulled. I pulled at it and I thrust it toward Chase.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

For a few seconds, I thought I might actually cry. That was so unlike me, I wasn't sure how to respond. Bronwyn Alessia St. Vincent Clare didn't get sad. She got mad. Or better, she got even.

I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.

I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.

Left with nothing but my own bloody fingertips, I let out a war cry of my own, raked my nails over its face, and fought like a girl.

Everything hurts." Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. "It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.

Caroline: 'You know Sora. I don't. It will hurt you. It won't hurt me. Nothing hurts me.' Lake: 'Liar. Just breathing hurts you so bad, you want to beat the snot out of something.

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Hawthornes aren't supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

A few months ago, she'd gotten a tattoo, a single word inked from wrist bone to wrist bone, just under the heel of her hand. SURVIVOR.

I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.

We just hadn't figured on Fighting life.

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who'd never met a site she couldn't hack or a code she couldn't break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I'd come within five feet of a pom-pom