Fighting Back Quotes

“I shook with helplessness and rage, but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. To fight back was to die quickly and to take others with you.

This was why prisoners went meekly to their deaths. I had been so resolved to fight back, but I knew then that I wouldn't. To suffer quietly hurt only you. To suffer loudly, violently, angrily--to fight back--was to bring hurt and pain and death to others.”
― Alan Gratz, Prisoner B-3087

“I may look small, but my bark AND my bite is BIG. - STRONG by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Kailin Gow's Go Girl Guide to Superfoods

“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That’s the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

“There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Too many children have suffered. Too many families have been broken. Too many girls have grown up alone. Or not at all. I won’t let them ruin anyone else.”
― K.A. Wiggins, Blind the Eyes

“I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger.

It was time to find Kellan.”
― Rose Wynters, Phase Four: Analyze

“You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it.

You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Dear Liar, I've collected evidence from my family, friends, and even online. It proves that I'm not what you told others I was. I'm not crazy. I'm not alone. I'm not unloved. I'm not useless. I'm not stupid. In fact, I'm intelligent. I'm beautiful. I'm useful. I'm loved. I am not alone.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“He's got the emptiness, bad as I do. I can see it in him. We all can. But he gets up anyway. We're trapped in here, and we all want to do something to help. We can't, but somehow he can.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“He's willing to rip his own teeth out of his mouth just to get out of this room. He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
― Frieda McFadden

“She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. “I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.”
― Rose Wynters, Phase One: Identify

“I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.”
― Yvette Christiansë, Unconfessed

“You gotta troll a troll, my dude. Those who use force only respond to greater force. Might makes right.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“To all of you who are at your lowest. Congratulations! The only way is now moving up reaching your greatest potential. Just hang in there till life lifts you back up.”
― Hiral Nagda

“We cannot always win. You are powerful not because you conquer—but because you fight.”
― Lexie Talionis, Dreams of Lethe

“It seemed, in the beginning,
that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That’s the lesson they
wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to
hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to
know it would cost them something.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That's the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realised I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“He considered her only as someone who worked under him. Someone he employed. Stung to anger by his sneers she let her tongue run away with her.
'Since you think of me as one of your servant, why do you expect me to work without wages?”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Poisoned Apple

“Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.”
― Luis Cosajay

“For those that dare to stand up
against those that want to knock you down." The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.”
― G. Allen Mercer, Worst Case Scenario Book 2: Bug Out

“[I]n his last few moments of humanity, he was just a boy. A boy who had taken a stand against everything he feared, and had finally been set free.”
― Obie Williams, The Crimes of Orphans

“I know you’re scared.” Everyone turns back to me. “I’m scared, too. But I know your reason for fighting is stronger than your fear, because it’s led you here. Each of us had been wronged by the guards, by this monarchy that’s sworn to protect us. Today we strike back for us all. Today we make them pay!”
The shouts of agreement ring through the air; even the mercenaries join in. Their cries bolster my spirits, unlocking the words trapped within. “They may have a thousand men in their army, but not one of them has the support of the gods. We have magic on our side, so stay strong, stay confident.”
“And if everything goes to hell?” Roën asks when the cheers die down.
“Strike,” I answer. “Fight with everything you’ve got.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“They might be able to hurt her body, but that didn’t mean they’d won.”
― Lexie Talionis, Flames of Lethe

“This was how she would die, and there was nothing to do about it, no one to save her. She'd taken her last breath and hadn't even made it a good one, so focused on her terror she had forgotten that she had weapons, and she had magic-

Weapons. Blind in the darkness, Nesta grabbed the dagger at her side. She'd fought back against the Cauldron. She'd do so now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“It's almost amusing, in a dark and twisted way, how I've spent my whole life tip-toeing around sharp edges - forever trying to outfox fate just to survive. Now, as if life has come full circle, I find myself intentionally steering into the eye of the storm.”
― Lilith Fury, In the darkness we share