Quotes About Adversity

came west in search of a better life, but

There's a river of sadness in me; it's always been there, but now it is rising, spilling over its banks. I know there's a possibility that if I'm not careful, it will become the biggest part of me and I will drown in it.

Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

Be brave...or pretend to be. It's all the same.

Važno je ono što jesi, ljudi koje nosiš u srcu i s kojima ostaješ zauvijek, a naro?ito u teškim vremenima.

En el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser. En la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos en realidad.

El miedo no era lo importante en la vida. Lo importante eran las elecciones que hacías cuando estabas asustada. Una era valiente debido al miedo, no a pesar de él.

Sabes lo que aprendí en los campos? Vianne la miró. —¿Qué? —Que no me pueden tocar el corazón. Que no pueden cambiar quién soy por dentro. Mi cuerpo…, eso lo rompieron los primeros días, pero mi corazón no. Vi, te hiciera lo que te hiciera, fue a tu cuerpo y tu cuerpo sanará.

This is no place for anyone," Vianne

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid.

The worst can always be true

wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You

Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair on the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn`t see.

Still, Isabelle and Gaëtan kept going. They walked all day

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

en el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser; en la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos.

Sometimes you had to go backward in order to go forward. This truth they knew, even as young as they were. But there was another truth, one they shied away from, one they tried to protect each other from. Sometimes it was painful to go back.

I look like any other girl my age, but I am different from most. A survivor. There is no way to forget what we went through in the Great Depression or to unlearn the lessons of hardship. Even though I am only eighteen, I remember my childhood as a time of loss.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

Once, a lifetime ago, she had worried about girls, only a few years older than her, who had gone missing. The stories had given her nightmares at thirteen. Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.

People who have lost themselves in the dark woods of ordinary life, who have been betrayed by loved ones and forgotten how to be led by dreams.