Courage Quote by Alistair MacLean

“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?”

— Chris Pavone

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She didn’t want to believe the pretty gentleman capable of such violence, but she had learned the hard way that pretty gentlemen were often…

— Kady Cross

“She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists,…

— Geoff Ryman

“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have…

— Edward St Aubyn

“No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but . . . I don’t know . . . a kind of woman’s courage.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The situation wasn’t ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,”

— Lev Grossman

“The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.”

— C.J. Brightley

“If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to confess herself…

— Henry James

“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.”

— Charles Yu

“Of course, you can’t protect anybody from everything bad. […] All you can do is hope she’s tough enough to get through the bad…

— Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin