Quotes About Adversity

Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.

We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City's decaying skyscraper core.

Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be, in the Good Old Days, back before you were born. Things used to be awesome, but now they're kinda terrifying. To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in 'decline.' Some people even say it's 'collapsing.

There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.

What could possibly be worse?" Cruz asked. "A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?

It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.

was sticking.

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.

Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I

Para mim, a escola tinha sido um exercício darwiniano. Um ataque diário de ridicularização, abuso e isolamento.

But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want." "Oh, snap!" Milo muttered under his breath.

life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily gauntlet of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.

Life was like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. But sometimes the game can have a surprise ending. And sometimes, when you think you've reached the end of the game, suddenly you find yourself standing in front of a whole new level. A level you've never seen before. And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing.

I never blamed my mom for the way things were. She was a victim of fate and cruel circumstance, like everyone else. Her generation had it the hardest. She'd been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. More than anything, I remember feeling sorry for her.

I know the future is scary at times, sweetheart. But there's just no escaping it.

Parzival: Nope. You got parents? Art3mis: They died. The flu. So I was raised by my grandparents. You got parentage? Parzival: No. Mine are dead too. Art3mis: It kinda sucks, doesn't it? Not having your parents around. Parzival: Yeah. But a lot of people are worse off than me. Art3mis: I tell myself that all the time.

Sorrento," I said, trying to hide the fear in my voice, "I want you and your bosses to know something. You're never going to find Halliday's egg. You know why? Because he was smarter than all of you put together. It doesn't matter how much money you have or who you try to blackmail. You're going to lose.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.