Quotes About Adversity

Dolerá. El dolor te hace fuerte.

I could probably fake setting someone on fire... After last year I figured I'd better be prepared. - Sam

if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

she could be more humiliated, it turned out that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

wolves always come

After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume that things would be straightforward from here on in.

Summer was supposed to be the best part of the year, but so far Nikki's summer sucked. It sucked hard. It sucked like a vacuum that got hold of the drapes.

Maybe my messed-up life has turned me into someone capable of doing messed-up things.

What they don't realise is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle in to my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.

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If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse - Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince

Nagle u?wiadamiam sobie, ?e ten kto bezustannie ?yje w strachu, komu zawsze grozi niebezpiecze?stwo, naj?atwiej to zniesie, zmierzaj?c prosto w paszcze lwa.

It's exhausting to watch someone try to be a ship that rocks will break against.

Though he means me harm, I will miss him. I will miss the way he moves through the world, as though nothing could be so terrible that he might not laugh at it.

KÅ'opot w tym, ?e kiedy prze?yje siÄ™ coÅ› strasznego czy wielkiego, zostajÄ… i wracajÄ… najrozmaitsze uczucia, które czÅ'owiek przedtem odsuwaÅ' na bok.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become much worse.

He's flint, you're tinder.

Vuelvo a casa cubierta de moretones, producto de las caídas y las patadas. Pero hay una cosa que no saben: sí, me dan miedo, pero siempre he vivido asustada, desde el día que llegué aquí. Me crió el hombre que asesinó a mis padres, retenida en una tierra llena de monstruos. Vivo con ese miedo, dejo que se asiente sobre mis huesos y lo ignoro.

If I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

Si no puedo ser mejor que ellos, seré mucho peor.

It will not be easy to live on an island if I am tormented by the waves.

It's not the first awful thing I have endured and pushed into the back of my brain. That's how I've been coping, and if there's another, better way, I do not know it