Quotes About Adversity

Have something serious happen to you, then try to tell an Irish woman not to make a fuss. It would be easier to keep the sun in the sky an extra two hours.

James Patterson

Sometimes a bad wind blows.

ground, impaled on the trunk of a tree that has been shaved down to the point of

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.

You don't want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don't even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don't give me a choice. —

James Patterson

James Patterson

there, but it was some half-assed firework or

James Patterson

I could barely move my left arm, and it hurt like fire. I tried to stretch out my wing, only to suck my breath in hard as I found out it had been hit too. I couldn't see it well over my shoulder, but my big clue was the screaming pain. I was scraped all over, had lost my windbreaker, and, if I wasn't mistaken, I was sitting in a patch of poison ivy.

You need to understand that life's not fair. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. You're like all the other Americans I know. Spoiled. Spoiled and entitled. It's infuriating. You have never known hardship, so you whine about anything that happens.

clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater.

Nuke Khatchadorian.

James Patterson

Oh, it was great," I said. "Apart from Bradley

Yes, Stevie Kosgrov makes my new home a living hell.

Back to math, science, social studies, killer bullies, killer food (not in the good way)

James Patterson

I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself.

No matter what's going on around you, son, always fly the airplane. Cain had been only twelve years old when his father said it. This is the most important thing in flying and in life: Take the controls.

With all due respect, Jacobi, that's a load of bull. It was bad, but I handled it. That's what the job is. I hardly have a scratch on me. So stop treating me like a victim. I'm fully functional and absolutely sane. This is my case and I'm on it. OK? OK?

already feel it. But I grabbed hold as tight as I could and then exploded into a blind, frenzied scramble of bare feet up the

short, seems to be wilting