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Quotes About Strength

You're less of a charmer, and more of a 'fury from the depths of hell' type of person.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Maybe she couldn't be drowned.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
We just got home from the hospital and my arm is in a cast. I've survived a near death experience!
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
~ Jodi Picoult
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
~ Jodi Picoult
It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
~ Jodi Picoult
Hard words are for fools and cowards.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
~ Joe Abercrombie
Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!
~ Joe Abercrombie
The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Got to have fear to have courage,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.
~ Joe Abercrombie
All the great heroes of old, you know - the great kings, the great generals - they all faced adversity from time to time." Jezal looked up. He had almost forgotten that Bayaz was there. "Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Unsheathe your swords!' He considered that. 'Or cheaper weapons! Let us ... do some good!
~ Joe Abercrombie
You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.
~ Joe Abercrombie