Quotes About Adversity

I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi.

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless.

Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.

I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card. What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Which put me one step ahead of where I was, now. I had already killed the Nightmare-or helped to kill it, at least. Something about that just didin't seem fair. There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.

Hell's Bells-Harry Dresden

See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: you can't win them all. But that doesn't mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part—he was too busy living it.

I might be the dumb kid with the sledgehammer from his father's toolshed, compared to the sword-saint samurai who were the Senior Council—but I had discovered, in my time, that no matter how skilled and elegant a foe might be, a sledgehammer to the skull is a sledgehammer to the skull.

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.

I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, "No one can chain the Hulk!

Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.

We all have our demons.

You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.

The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.

Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her? Some did, she said. I never liked it, but... Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.

Harry," she said. "What if we can't find out who is doing it in time?" "We'll find them," I said. "But if we don't?" "Then we fight monsters." Murphy took a deep breath and nodded as we stepped out into the summer night. "Damn right we do.