Quotes About Adversity

She nodded, hoping he was right and her jagged edges would smooth and that being beaten up by life could turn out well. "It's

It reminds me that something can be broken and then get tossed around a lot and what comes out at the end is amazing.

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

I had just one goal—to stay alive until the next day … . But it wasn't just to survive, but to survive as me. —Mario Villani

Stop calling me resilient. I'm not resilient. Because every time you say, 'Oh, they're resilient,' you can do something else to me." –Tracie Washington, New Orleans-based civil rights attorney, 2010

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-My father's a wood-cutter, I said- adOf axe-swinging lummocks! he snarled.

With a demon wanting to devour me, I was feeling inclined to be devout . . .

They cut them down. They will always cut them down. They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring

Mum always told me that you couldn't know what people would do in a crisis, but I'd thought she just meant you should forgive people for behaving like weasels under bad circumstances, not that a stale biscuit like Khamis might suddenly come over all heroic in a tight corner.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing's changed and it's all still horrible but you can't cry forever, so there's nothing to do but go on.

I didn't need this much more to lose.

Oddly enough constantly being on the verge of malnourishment, exhaustion and mortal terror isn't really conductive to romance.

Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

It made me angry, because being angry was better than being afraid.

I wasn't sorry they didn't like me, I wasn't sorry I had been hard to them. I was glad, fiercely glad. They had wanted me to bury my mother and leave my father behind to die alone. They had wanted me to go be a beggar in my grandfather's house, and live the rest of my days a quiet mouse in the kitchen. They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better

Sabes? Es casi admirable —dijo al cabo de un momento, con la voz menos temblorosa—. Estás medio muerta y sigues siendo la persona más borde que he conocido nunca. Y por cierto: de nada, otra vez.

Laurence reached up to wipe the grime from his face, and finding his hand come away red with gore felt back to where his scalp hung open and wet. Help me fold it up again, he said. A head wound is always a bloody nuisance; but unless my brains are out in the air, I suppose it will not kill me.

What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?

You're just setting yourself up for pain and anguish if you do something like that. But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use.

I'm the sea, I'm not afraid of the storm. The sea's dream is always turbulence. If I don't have waves and storms, I won't be the sea anymore. I'll be the pond— and stinking.

so many things frowned upon in the early days that shaped us