Quotes About Adversity

What happened to you? she asked. I got hit in the side. With what? A knife.

You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

Put on your big girl pants and deal.

If I can live through the events," she said, "I can get through the memories.

Courage doesn't mean you aren't scared.

Are you all right?" "Leg's shot" "How shot?" "Well, I'm looking at the heel of my shitkicker and the front of my knee at the same time. And there's a high probability I'm going to throw up.

Destiny is not a straightaway. It's cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do...and find ourselves where we are.

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you—if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

Scars, though, left wounds on the inside of you, and as with skin that didn't heal right, you still felt the rough spots from time to time.

None of them knew that it wasn't because he was a nice guy; it was because he was one of them. The hard reality was that life had put them all where they didn't want to be, namely on their backs for people they didn't want to be fucking.

This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.

The strong do not wallow. They move forward.

The bitch had to go down.

Sometimes dragon slayers... Were just slayers.

just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people's souls deepen and gain resonance it's the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff—loss, heartache, disappointment.

Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.

Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down.

Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong

It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one's own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another. The former was harder, yet far more vital. The latter was like a living death...except you didn't know you were dying because you were in a coma.

Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death.

Tragedy, like love, makes people blind.

The more you're exposed to trauma, the more hardened you become to it and the safer you are. And that is a really suck-ass fucking equation, but it is the goddamn truth." Butch

Like, bring on the daggers, get the salt, let's do this thing.

It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one's own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another.