When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? – Tobias Eaton.
He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.
This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.
He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.
You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are.
I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don’t see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can’t be; someone I can be.
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.