Courage Quote by Victor Hugo

“She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared, So she stopped, She was crushed, Stiff & lifeless, Like everything else.”

— Truth Devour

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“She was the promise of youth, of being fearless...of being alive. She was everything I couldn't have and shouldn't want, but the more she…

— Ella Frank

“Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.”

— Rebecca Barry

“Her heart-her whole heart-turned over in such a poignant rush that all the strength seemed to leave her.”

— Laura Frantz

“I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live—full of passion and fierce energy.”

— Nina Levine

“His heart was wounded like hers, but it was strong, it wouldn't flinch or shy away from her. It would beat faster, harder, in…

— Stephanie Garber

“But all that was as automatic as her beating heart, as subconscious as breathing - what she felt above all was the fierce tingling…

— Lisa Verge Higgins

“Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood