self-assured Quotes

“Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of his path, touched by the supernatural, respected by all, survived by his legacy.”

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

“That is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.”

“If your life is going to change, you must think for a change. You are always only one thought away from changing your life.”

“Then if you want something and it’s a good thing and you got it in the right way, you better hang on to it and don’t let nobody talk you out of it. You care what a lot of useless people say ‘bout you you’ll never get anywhere, ‘cause there’s a lotta folks don’t want you to make it. You understand what I’m telling you?”

“You know a woman is strong, beautiful, and secure by the way she empowers and inspires others.”

“We’ve got to learn to start believing in ourselves because if we don’t — who will?”

“I was going to live my life my way, however short-lived it may be, and I wasn’t asking for permission anymore.”