Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Have you ever fought an opponent you had no defense against? Like a fire breather or an acid spitter? Once I faced a female with diamond skin, Nix said breathlessly. I was transfixed - even as she was...

"I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something."

Our family has survived a long time. We've weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We've endured being sent away, and we've coped with evildoers in our midst. If I...

But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone....

My name is Sam Cortland … and I will not be afraid. I've been doing it for years.

Shining brighter than the snow outside, Aelin lifted her chin and began her final walk home.

Hers was not a story of darkness. This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself, this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.

But for my home, for Prythian and the human territory and so many others … I would clean my blades, and wash the blood from my skin. And I would do it again and again and again.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

I find it magnificent how beautiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with decent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.

I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges-storms, sickness, wolves. But...

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason...

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other...

When you move they can't get you 'A'

Papa stirred in the candlelight, opening his eyes. Oh, Samantha, he murmured, his smile weak. You're as pretty as your mother. She shook her head. Her body was covered with dust, her hair windblown,...

Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.

We are the people of Misr, the old woman rasped. Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little...

I don't want to be defined by this.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand