Lev Grossman Quotes

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

I should try to be strong, but baby, you're the right kind of wrong.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.