Quotes About Adversity

There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

People in hell want snowcones.

Tragedy doesn't necessarily change us. More often, I think, it just brings out more of who we are—or were—all along.

She stepped closer to the edge to watch the waves beat against rock. She felt that way, she mused. Battered by forces that were beyond her control, lapped in a violent, endless war with no choice but to stand.

Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.

Major, monumental crises bring out the best or the worst in us—sometimes both. And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.

Even now, the Lincoln was less than a half block behind. "Dammit. They just won't shake lose." "Oh yeah?" Whitney set her teeth and gave the mirror a quick check. She'd never been a gracious loser. "Watch this." Before Doug could draw a breath, she whipped the Mercedes around in a tight U-turn and headed dead-on for the Lincoln. He watched with a kind of fascinated dread. "Oh my God.

She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

Maybe this wasn't the road she'd expected to take, all those years ago when she was a young girl who imagined having pretty things and a quiet life that she would earn by using her brain. But it was the road she'd taken, and she was making it the right road.

Optimism wasn't always a shield against the worst of it, and acceptance wasn't always enough.

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It shows who we are. We're making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we're okay. They couldn't take who we are away from us. We're who we are despite them.

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?

He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the punchline.After changing her tire and practicing macho lines to impress her, Macintosh ended up with five dollars, a stutter, and soaked shoes as Veronica zoomed out of his life.

New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam. He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world.

She chose a bottle of sauvignon blanc from the kitchen rack and uncorked it. These are trying times. There have been others, and there will be more. She poured three glasses. It's essential that we live while we move through them.

There are always monsters," the old man replied. "Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.

Nature's a bitch and she barely tolerates us.

Some made the right choices, and made the best of their chances.