Quotes About Adversity

says Ginn. "I never considered it rough. I considered it not having money, but I always think, if you're asleep on a floor, how can you tell the difference anyway—you're asleep.

A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding.

Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.

It's a sinking ship, he said. You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.

Do you think they were ever happy? Definitely, I said. Definitely? For sure. She went crazy. His business failed. They couldn't have children of their own. He went to prison. HRT gave her cancer. I shot his brother in the eye and then married a man who cost him his business. When were they happy? In the cracks? I said. In the cracks. Yeah.

The other fellow was more of a fireplug, broad in the chest and shoulders, with a wide pugnacious face and the hint of a shadow even on his freshly shaved jaw. He always looked as if he had not dressed for work that morning so much as gotten into some kind of altercation with his suit, shirt, and tie.

He and Dolores had been married thirty-one months before parting. There had been an extramarital kiss, entrepreneurial disaster, a miscarried baby, sexual malaise, and then very soon they had been forced to confront the failure of an expedition for which they had set out remarkably ill-equipped, like a couple of trans-Arctic travelers who through lack of preparation find themselves stranded and are forced to eat their dogs.

When were they happy? In the cracks? I said. In the cracks.

My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and a wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.

grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For

If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you.

if you can't stand the ghosts, get out of the haunted house.

But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...

For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back.

He knew evil could never be vanquished. It just moved from one place to another and waited.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you….

The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she persevered.

I've seen long careers and careers cut short. The difference is in how you handle the darkness.

Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He'd had only one true family, a gang.

I felt like he was another one who'd never had a shot at anything but thug life in the first place. He'd never known his father and had dropped out of school in the sixth grade

for the first time in a long time Ballard thought she might lose her job. And for the first time in a long time she thought that might not be so bad.

lawyer were ready for you and they shut that whole avenue down. Where do you go from there?" "We keep pushing," I said. "The four deaths are connected. I know

What's that line that Nietzsche said? 'Whoever fights monsters…' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœShould see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.