Strength Quote by Wallace Stegner

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“... in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn't blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“She hadn't understood what that cold moisture had been trying to say, as it drenched her battered body and spread through her dried-up veins.…

— Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish…

— Humphrey Cobb

“And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him,…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his…

— Alice Munro

“He was more important than my arms or legs; he was the blood that used to flow through my veins, the air in my…

— Liz Schulte

“I was covered with blood. It dripped mournfully from my body, with pain and sorrow in every drop.”

— R. O. Barton

“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw. Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone. Impatience, in the soft thrum…

— Ellen Hopkins

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley