Quotes About Adversity

She gave a frustrated little cry. "Everyone thinks I should be wrapped up in cotton wool and babied-when I'm not being pitied, that is! But I'm no tame housecat. I never have been. What was done to me didn't alter that. I'm attracted to Judd's strength-give me a nice gentle puppy dog of a man and I'd drive him to tears within the hour.

Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.

Vas a volar, Sienna. Más alto y más fuerte que aquellos que te enjaularon podrán nunca imaginar.

She didn't give in to pity. That woman - girl, really - had survived a monster intent on destroying everything she was. She deserved a fucking medal for courage, not pity.

A veces la ira puede ser algo bueno. Hace que sigas adelante cuando no queda nada más.

Bad Things Happen… But Then Good Things Happen

I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium!

Whatever life throws at you,know that it's the universe testing you to see how committed you are.

The young are resilient." "But scars remain." "Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are.

You either fight or you curl up and die. Only two choices.

Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet.

Don't give the monsters the satisfaction of seeing you give up.

My unshed tears had hardened to stone inside me.

Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

June in Delhi illustrates the common belief that a Delhiwala, like a cockroach, can survive anything, for such are the vicissitudes of weather, conditioning and deprivation that the human spirit here has soared to new heights of indomitability to survive.

Everyone faces tragedy and sadness in life, but God doesn't make bad things happen.

So often, life isn't what we expect—or want—it to be. I know this isn't the most profound statement, but it's true—shit happens . . . and we just either have to soldier on . . . or not.

Pinetta was a hotbed of snakes and storms and sandspurs and sexual longing.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Gratitude for bullets dodged is much healthier than self-pity or regret.

A woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the same time. I'm glad he's on our side.

I am my own tapestry, then, made as I could for myself. Some holes in my fabric have been made by others, some torn by chance. Missing threads in the weave represent all those I have loved who died so long before me