Quotes About Strength

It was equally clear, at least to her, that no one on the right side of sanity messed with Douglas Burke.

You're only twenty-four," he said. "You have plenty of scars for someone your age.

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN.

A bunny trying to intimidate a Wolf? How ludicrous!

We are here. We are different but we stand united to protect our home. We are different but we protect our families, whether they are families by blood or by heart.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall.

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength.

I am someone who did not die when I should have died.

You know who I am. You know my naked power.

WHEN HE IS there they lift the stones together. The stones are her lungs.

I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.

You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal

I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to reveal it.

But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The