Quotes About Adversity

Better broke than dead.

Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we're going to get out of this?

When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

Worried about me? Brendan snorted, Hell freezes and the devil skates before that happens. You can survive anything.

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.

When I'm feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.

Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. So I recall, she said. Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that. The smile faded. But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.

Rachel Caine

I've never been through what you have, but I've been in the dark a few times. Sometimes the light's just too bright.

Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore.

need to remember my failures as much as my successes; they teach me to think harder about the risks I'm taking. Because not all those risks are mine.

Crepi il lupo. Kill the wolf.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

I don't know if she has any choice.' 'There's always a choice.'... 'Unless your choice is to lie down and die.

those people live in a dystopian fantasy where they're the heroes in a world full of threats.

life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

But the only thing more certain than death and taxes is bullies.

I'm forged hard out of pieces, like a bar of solid steel. There's nothing soft left. I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

but sometimes it's necessary to face your fears to learn from them.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

The Eskimos began to make troublesome raids...

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?