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What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?
— Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
He smelled like a sultry summer storm—cool, refreshing rain, sweltering, hot wind, and charged, electric thunder—all rolled up into one extremely enticing vampire being.
— Ada Adams, ReVamped
It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back’s not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
— Jayde Scott, A Job From Hell
In short, if you should find yourself in a fight against a vampire, you are really right and proper fucked.
— Robyn Bachar, Blood, Smoke and Mirrors
I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain.
— Alyxandria Harvey
P.S. Murders kill for pleasure.Vampires kill to survive.
— Abigail Gibbs, Dinner with a Vampire
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
— Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun
Handsome and brilliantly rich
—  their fatal flaw is murder.
I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.
— Rachel Caine, Bitter Blood
My mind told me he most have had a weapon
—  my eyes saw none.
Dear God, that man has a magnificent body.' ............. 'It’s like having a cupcake thrust in front of your face and not being allowed to have a lick of the icing.
— J.L. McCoy
You know...acting like a dick...won't make yours any bigger.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
Kiss me one last time Skye... before I die. I want to enter heaven with the taste of you on my lips.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.
— J.L. McCoy, Blood of the Son
He kicked my ass, but he also treated me like a person and not just some girl.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
Since I can't turn into a bat and fly, I'll still need my bus pass
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
What you feel for me, is it caused by your vampirism, or do you yourself feel that way? Because, I mean, I guess I AM, technically, like a walking hamburger. Who wouldn't want a free meal?" I asked tentatively.
— J.L. McCoy, Blood of the Son
Is this bitch crazy? I don't want to 'accidentally' drown
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
I took a deep breath and sighed in awe. My proverbial penis had just gotten a serious chubby.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
At least I could tell she wouldn't try to kill me in my sleep now.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
I watched him suck on the bag and I shivered involuntarily at the sudden memory of Jameson’s fangs sliding into my neck. I vividly remembered the instant feeling of ecstasy that overtook my body last night when he fed from me and the intense orgasms that followed.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
So you believe in blood sucking fangers, but you don't believe in the existence of werewolves. What kind of narrow minded crap is that?
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
What did you think was going to ensue when you chose Hagan's big ass to train me? That guy is wicked fierce and a total badass.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
He looked at me with such raw need that my heart skipped a beat. He licked his lips and slowly lowered his head to mine. Does it even matter if he only wants me for my blood?
— J.L. McCoy, Blood of the Son
Oh, shut up Hagan. I'm not doing it for you; I'm doing it for me. I don't want your blood getting all over my outfit.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
Sorry. Didn't mean to step on any dead toes.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
I took a deep breath and slowly blew it out. He won't hurt me, I silently reminded myself. 'Never,' Archer said, shaking his head. 'I'll never hurt you again, Skye.
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
I was absolutely speechless. The most beautiful man I had ever seen…IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, just said I was beautiful. I blushed when the reality hit me, and boy, did it hit me hard.
— J.L. McCoy, Blood of the Son
Um, she'll take your number if you're single
— J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
All tha’ effin’ an’ blindin’ she was doin’...I ain’t never seen tha’ likes. Ya’ made a right hames wit dis’ wan, Athair. If she ‘ad been one of us, I’da put fifty quid on ‘er. She was after ya’ bollox, she was!
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
— L.J. Smith, Moonsong
Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
— L.J. Smith
I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, Team Human
At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.
— P.C. Cast, Chosen
A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.”-- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)
— Karen Chance
Fun? “Katrina, I didn’t request to be set up on a date. I can’t go meet a complete stranger and….” he scanned the email again. “…and spend the night with her?
— Lia Davis
His eyes narrowed to slits.Power passed over her, intensifying her desire for him. She moaned and rotated her hips against him. “What will you do with me now?
— Lia Davis
You freaking bit me," I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control.
— Jayde Scott
I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam
— Charlaine Harris
That’s funny. You would think after being followed and shoved into a dark alley by a stranger, you would be at least a little shaken. Don’t tell me, you are a black belt just waiting for the perfect moment to strike.” He laughed soundlessly. “I mean your words do sound brave but your eyes and the fact that you’re trembling like a scared little kitten say something else entirely.” Even though the alley was submerged in darkness and shadows, it was obvious there was a devilish grin stretched across his face...
— Nicole  Rae
Nothing good happens after dark... -Daire in Betrayed
— Lauree Waldrop
When you name your child after a grotesque gigantic creature known for slaughtering hundreds of innocents for the sole purpose of entertainment (okay so they were illegal immigrants who entered his realm) you must have a slight idea how that would turn out.
— Cyma Rizwaan Khan, V Day
I hate it when I go into a Snack Shack and they're out of Blue Ice. The other slushie flavors taste like cheap candy.
— Daven Anderson
Great. I guess you're the dog whisperer, vampire edition.
— John Corwin, Dark Light of Mine
Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice. I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?" "A cliff's edge," she whispers. Precipice. Must be a French word.
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
Centuries of perfectly-pitched heartbreak resound through Les' microphone as Stella and I embrace in a slow dance.
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
We even commissioned a smaller pair of these statues for the baggage claim area in the regular lobby. Gives all those Normal conspiracy nuts something to talk about besides the Blue Mustang. They think our statues are the work of Masons or reptilian beings. Ha.
— Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome
Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.
— Julie Kagawa
She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.
— L.J. Smith
But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Life’s a bitch and then you die and death’s a bitch too. Only my life was lovely and I miss it so much.
— Shalini Boland, Thicker Than Blood
No one stays the same, David. Everything you are is a direct result of something that's affected you in your past, whether it was horrible or wonderful -- no one has the right to destroy themselves because they can't deal with the pain. You have to learn from it. It's not over--the good in your life--it's not over until your dead.
— Angela M. Hudson
No, not me....no.........because I've already ended, and been given a new life, one that never ends
— TheImmortals3000
No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.
— Melanie Fair, Wolves Among Sheep
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..
— Ellen Hopkins, Crank
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love
—  it is the prerogative of the brave.
Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
— Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
— Ronald Reagan
When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
— Billy Graham
In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
— Mickey Mantle
She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
— Lauren Oliver, Panic
Being brave is not as easy as it looks.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
— Gertrude Stein
I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
— Thomas Fuller
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
— Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War
Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down
— Tom Petty, Conversations with Tom Petty
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...
— Louisa May Alcott
Bravery comes one day at a time.
— Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal
My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
— Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard
She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
A man without fear, is a man I strive to be.
— Geoffrey Brokos, The Empty Crypts Vol: I
You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Cowboy
Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.
— Michelle Zink, Guardian of the Gate
...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
— Dave Matthes, Bar Nights
The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke.There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face.It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more. And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it.
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
— Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to speak about what's really under the surface. It's easy to joke, but difficult to cry. It's easy to numb, but hard to feel.Ironically the real victims of emotional laziness are the people themselves. They end up choosing their emotional comfort zones over happiness. So in the end, they may not be 'uncomfortable' anymore; but they are also miserable.
— Yasmin Mogahed
There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.
— Heather Brewer
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
— Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.
— Eric Powell, The Goon, Volume 10: Death's Greedy Comeuppance
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
She was the bravest person I ever knew.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.
— Ilana Waters, The Adventures of Stanley Delacourt
My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, "Do not fear my dear, I am here!
— Mo Yan, Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.
— Charles Bukowski
Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...
— Aishah Madadiy, Velvet di Durham
A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.
— Henry Chancellor, The Forgotten Echo
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
— Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.
— Caterina Sforza
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
— Veronica Roth
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
— C.S. Lewis
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes, Father. They have the bravest hearts, the noblest souls, and the shiniest armor in all the world.”“Shiniest armor?” repeated King Ban.
— Gerald Morris
What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
— Veronica Roth
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?"	Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.
— Brian Jacques, Redwall
Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.“Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. “She’s dead, and there’s nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It—”The two were out the door.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords
I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.
— Pam Bachorz, Drought
You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.
— M.L. LeGette, For the Kingdom
Bravery shared doesn't act like bravado among her own.
— Linda  Robinson, Chantepleure
When the Guard convinced you fate was not on our side, you parted ways with me and saw fit to make me suffer,' Percy stated. The pain on Alexi's face worsened, and he opened his mouth to refute her. She put her hands lovingly on his cheeks. 'We survived. Our love survived. And we shall again.'He stared at her in wonder. 'How did my dear girl grow so brave?'Percy grinned. 'Didn't you hear? The meek shall inherit the earth.
— Leanna Renee Hieber, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)
— Geraldine Brooks, March
I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again."I will help you.
— M.L. LeGette, The Unicorn Girl
But what's braver?' Emmanuel said. 'Naming the bigots and possibly being killed for it? Or living in silence in order to protect yourself and those you love?' I think bravery had more to do with making the choice and less to do with the choice it self. In that situation, bravery was both living and dying.
— Janelle Gray, Echoes of the Struggle
Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.
— Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun
I read once, and I wished I could remember where, that Brave was a place. You could just go there if you wanted. There were dozens of Braves, everywhere, all over the world, where ordinary people stood up to tyranny and oppression.
— Katherine Locke
Bravery breaks barriers
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We are the eyes in the darkness
— Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.
— George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
As we pretend to be brave, we become so.
— Pierce Brown, Morning Star
When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.
— John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
Bravery breaks barriers! You were not born to be mediocre! Put on courage and conquer! Don’t forget, however, never ever to go without true humility in all your endeavors!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...bravery often demands a price.
— Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us--who want to help people? Why should we treat them as if they're less than us, until they prove their worthiness or die? I won't do it.
— Cassandra Clare, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow fall outside and came up with this: how brave a thing it was for him to try to rediscover something, even if it was only himself, not a continent.
— Peter Geye
What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
I don't want my life to not be the way I expected.I may not be scared of crowds. Or the dark. Or small spaces. But I am afraid. I am afraid of responsibility; I am afraid of not living up to expectations, of the changing future, of growing up, not knowing, sex, relationships, hardship, secrets, grades, judgement, falling short, loneliness, change, confusion, arguments, curiosity, love, hate, losing, pressure, differences, honesty, lies.I am afraid of me.Yet, despite this, I know I am brave. I know I am brave because I've accepted my invisible fears and haven't let them overcome me.I want you to know that you're brave because you know your fears. You're brave because you introduced yourself. You're brave because you said 'No, I don't understand.' You're brave because you are here.
— Emily Trunko, Dear My
Bravery is never measured by the magnitude of the actions, but rather by the choices made.
— K.B. Ezzell, Elysium
Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.Thorn waited. Fearless as flowers, bright, fragile, open to the sky. Brave, as only those who’ve already lost can be.
— Mark  Lawrence, Red Sister
I know this is scary. You're hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can't turn on each other! Not now! Show me how brave you can be by pulling together! Do it for each other! That's the trick! Because when you reach out--when you extend yourself for other people-- that's when you're without fear!
— Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 2
I am so brave with love and yet, so weak.
— N.R.Hart
Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
— Jeffrey Fry
Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Dying in one’s fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it’s not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “The reader can get into these shoes, walk a bit, and say, ‘So that’s what it looks like from here. Sooner or later, I’ll be back here in my own shoes.’ That’s what I’m aiming for, I think. Not the sensationalism of dying and not the exhortations to gather rosebuds but: Here’s what lies up ahead on the road.” Of course, he did more than just describe the terrain. He traversed it bravely.
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
We don't need you to make us feel safe, Jake. Because you made us feel brave. And that's even better.
— Emma, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.
— Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
There are lots of people out there who are terribly hateful. She could avoid a whole lot of trouble and dress and act as they want her to, but she chooses to be herself. That's brave. Also - the last time we met she stopped Jackaby from hurting the men who hurt her. They might have killed her. Kindness is an act of bravery. I think, just as hatred is an act of fear. I'm sure can appreciate that not all strength is muscle, Mr. Finstern. She has a strong spirit, and I believe she is brave about the way she chooses to use it.
— William Ritter, Ghostly Echoes
Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.
— Garth Nix, To Hold the Bridge
Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Every day since waking up in the hospital I've wanted to die, but watching that man sink below the waves, I feel something inside me rise up. A Dragon doesn't surrender. A Dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orang glow. I have to hang on to my life—however ruined and useless. Mama's voice comes floating to me, reciting one of her favorite sayings, "There is no catastrophe except death; one cannot be poorer than a beggar." I want—need—to do something braver and finer than dying.
— Lisa See, Shanghai Girls
Am I brave enough? What is brave? Is bravery counted by the medals, proudly on display on a soldier’s uniform or is it in laying down your life for something bigger than yourself. Is bravery in holding tight or letting go? For some, bravery is in standing against the world for your Principle …. For me bravery is living each day of my life for the sake of something greater than myself.
— BinYamin Gulzar
And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coraline to the cat. ‘It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’"‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.
— S.D.   Smith, The Black Star of Kingston
Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...
— J.K. Rowling
You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.
— K. Towne Jr.
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.
— George R.R. Martin
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.
— Kwame Alexander, Booked
He was mad and plenty brave.
— Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
Let's get going. I don't like being alone out here. The sooner we can blend in with the Imperial population the safer we'll be. It's not hard to cross here," Mari added as they waded through the stream. "We are fortunate," Alain told her. "It is more difficult downstream."She felt a shadow cross her mind. "Where that bridge was? Where you almost died?""Yes.""I'm really proud of you for that, but don't do it again. I'm being selfish. I need you." Mari waved one finger at Alain. "Don't be a hero?"He regarded her impassively. "Even if you need a hero?
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
— Stephen King, Misery
Bravery could only be found inside of fear. So she bore the feeling. After all, it was just a feeling.
— C.M. Rayne, Dark Oracle
As she climbed down from the stage, I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.
— Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
— Thomas Browne, Urne Burial
I tell you, old friend, I'd rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we're here because we choose to be. We're here out of bravery and not cowardice.
— Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid
— J.K. Rowling
Cowards never dare to love.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.
— Kass Morgan, Homecoming
Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important.
— Shannon L. Alder
I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~ The doctor told me something onceshe saidSTOP DRINKINGI slapped her across the face with thisNOI walked right out of that officewent right down to the holeI told the bartenderWHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKERhe poured and he pouredand I slapped my money down on that barthe man I had been driving around withhe just sort of sat there next to this hookershe probably had something rottenway down there between her legsher eyes told of no soulI emptied the bottle down my throatand ordered some chipsthe bartender told meTHEY'RE STALEand I give him a I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,GIVE ME SOMETHIN'He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and saidENJOYI went back to my roomand talked all nightso much conversationit turned the toilet bowl pale
— Dave Matthes, Strange Rainfall on the Rooftops of People Watchers: Poems and Stories
Bravery in a fictional character is one thing--it's easy to imagine and easy to write. Bravery in real life offers many challenges. We want to believe we will be brave if a situation requires us to. But if we over-think it, we will certainly fail. One simply needs to act toward the best possible result rather than to ponder all of the possibilities.
— Susan Wingate, The Deer Effect
Let men position you in the den, God will make you a Daniel in the den. Let men position you to face Goliath, God will make you a David. Let men subject you to undue pressure, torture and pain, blindfold you and lead you into the dungeon, God will make you a Samson there! Let men sell you into indentured servitude, God will make you Joseph. Let men build a death trap for you, God shall turn it into the days of Mordecai and Haman and you shall only see with your eyes the destruction of evil conspirators who would never repent! Let all odds be against you, God will make you Job. And when though fear grips your heart because of the storm you see, God will empower you and make you more than Peter. Stay hopeful! Trust in God!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.
— Emory R. Frie, Heart of a Lion
If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.
— Uchenna Durugo
I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.
— Suzanne Collins
If you could choose any mask to wear right now, what would it be?” Anne lay down her yarn. “I suppose if, as you say, I would grow into this mask, then I would make it of my own face . . . but a braver, better version of myself.” “And what would this braver Anne do?” The answer came quickly, as if it had been there all along. I’d save them, she thought.
— Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.
— Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.
— Lera Auerbach, Excess of Being
I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said "Risk creates intimacy
— Mary-Louise Parker
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.
— Dave Matthes, Paradise City
They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.
— Linda Poindexter
When you're on your own again, well celebrate your victory for not giving yourself up just to somebody.
— Rio Rose Alejandro Buenaflor
It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall
— Susan Hill, I'm the King of the Castle
In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?
— Tove Jansson
Then help us.”“I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?”“You try.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.
— Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.
— Andrea Cremer, The Conjurer's Riddle
It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.
— L.G. Abell, A Mother's Book of Traditional Househould Skills
We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
Bravery means doing something scary.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.
— Jodi Meadows, Asunder
Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
— Brandon Mull, Sky Raiders
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
— James A. Garfield
It takes more than balls to be a woman. It takes ovaries.
— Solange nicole
We can hope.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.
— Ronda Rousey
Being fearless is not in the absence of fear
—  it's just about fearing less.
She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
It was a satisfying bravery
—  it never aroused antagonism.
The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
— Brandon Mull
It is good to be brave, it is better to be good; strive to be both.
— Justin Huntly McCarthy, The Dryad
Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn't feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere's an explanation I'm sureall this bloodit's from all the times I held the glass too closeAnd forgot to tip the dancerA storm just passedand like every other one that came before itI was left unharmedThe dogs are all barking and the catshiding in the basementAnd the sky is colored that bright yellow glowmakes it feel like you're wearing sunglassesthat you can't take offWherever you are nowit's not herebecause I missed itI missed the showI missed the curtain callAnd forever more I am cursedlike a blanket without a body to keep warm
— Dave Matthes, Strange Rainfall on the Rooftops of People Watchers: Poems and Stories
Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.
— Luther Standing Bear, My Indian Boyhood
It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.
— Andrea Lochen, Imaginary Things
Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, "She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Let the Kez come,” Tamas roared. “Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!
— Brian  McClellan, The Crimson Campaign
Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.-Mukta
— Amita Trasi, The Color of our Sky
Find your fucking balls, Mitch, and reattach them!
— Jacquelyn Ayres, Under Contract
BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.
— Piet Hein
Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill?
— Matthew McConaughey
You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strength you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Drop your weapons once and they will dig you in to the grave forever.
— Ameya Agrawal
When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
— Carla H. Krueger
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
— Carla H. Krueger
Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through the dark bushes, over the dead and dying wounded, hats coming off, hair flying, mouths making sounds, one man firing as he ran, the last bullet, last round.
— Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.
— Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.
— Jack London, The Iron Heel
It’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it…You have to let people see what you wrote.
— Tina Fey
He stopped the flyersAnd by his rare example made the cowardTurn terror into sport. As weeds beforeA vessel under sail, so men obeyedAnd fell below his stem. His sword, Death's stamp,Where it did mark, it took; from face to footHe was a thing of blood, whose every motionWas timed with dying cries. Alone he enteredThe mortal gate o' th' city, which he paintedWith shunless destiny; aidless came offAnd with a sudden reinforcement struckCorioles like a planet. Now all's his,When by and by the dim of war gan pierceHis ready sense; then straight his doubled spiritRequickened what in flesh was fatigate,And to the battle came he, where he didRun reeking o'er the lives of men as if'Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we calledBoth field and city ours, he never stoodTo ease his breast with panting.
— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
— Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.
— Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
Your attempt was valiant, but the fight was unfair. He was a seasoned warrior, fully armored. You were a lad with a short sword. You have a brave heart. That can be more important than size or strength.
— Brandon Mull
She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.
— Laini Taylor, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
— William Shakespeare
I denied Discordia and regret nothing
—  I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice
Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.
— Thea Harris, Pour the Oil