Quote by Suzanne Collins

“They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Somehow this is what I wanted to happen. I was holding my ground under attack from my enemies, lashing out at them until they…

— Ian Cross

“Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless,…

— Paul Hoffman

“I cocked my fist back, remembering what Brendan had taught me. "Don't aim for your target. You'll have more of an impact that way."…

— Cara Lynn Shultz

“But if the arrow is straight And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick. So I'll make my…

— Bob Dylan

“The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.”

— Jess Rothenberg

“Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand...had been at the center of everything.”

— Téa Obreht

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena…

— J.K. Rowling

“No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”

— A.B. Shepherd

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not…

— Virginia Woolf

“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.”

— Tarjei Vesaas