By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom.

My name is Celaena Sardothien, she whispered, and I will not be afraid.

Brave cubs become fierce lions.

Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

Love is fierce like a lion; once it has entered the heart, it is in vain to resist.

You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.