Quotes About Adversity

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane

Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.

I could taste the blood in my mouth, from where I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

I know what it's like to lose it.

You okay? Fix asked her. Have to be, she said.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve

I had expected him to try to talk me out of it. Or at least to berate me for being an idiot. He didn't do either. There was a calm acceptance of terrible things that was part and parcel of Sanya's personality. No matter how bad things got, I didn't think anything would ever truly faze him. He simply accepted the bad things that happened and soldiered on as best he could.

How do i do this?

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain

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

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly—it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things," she said. "I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Trying not to feel.

He smiled crookedly. "I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare.