Quotes About Adversity

There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop.

Upset isn't the same as the world falling apart.

Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War.

I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

How have you made it this far in life, George? How do you not get eaten alive by the world out there?

I think that maybe everybody falls" I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don´t think that´s the asking"... "I think the asking is whether we get back up again

If they can snuff out that part of you that's good, the part of you that won't kill, then they win, don't you see? If they can do it to you, they can do it to anyone. And they win. They WIN!

He survives, does our Todd.

Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren't fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem.

Why did the first settlers come?" Hildy asks me. "Why does anyone look for a new place to live?" "Cuz the place yer a-leaving ain't worth staying for," Tam says. "Cuz the place yer a-leaving is so bad ye gotta leave.

Don't worry about it," his father said, going back to his breakfast. "Worse things happen at sea." "What does that mean?" "It means we're going to pretend like it never happened," his father said, firmly, "because other things are going on right now.

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and my thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Yo pienso así —afirmo mientras mis pensamientos van surgiendo e inmiscuyéndose con el ruido—. Creo que todo el mundo cae —asevero—, todos nosotros sin excepción. Y me parece que la cuestión no es esa. La sujeto por los hombros para asegurarme de que me está prestando atención. —Me parece que la cuestión es si somos o no capaces de levantarnos.

The devil always outnumbers his foes," he said. "Even if he is alone.

Y él supo que era entonces. Supo que de verdad no había vuelta atrás. Que iba a pasar, independiente de lo que él quisiera, independiente de lo que sintiera. Y supo también que lo iba superar. Sería terrible. Mucho más que terrible. Pero sobreviviría

hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

soft man who made himself a hard man by drinking whisky in the classroom

Y cómo se supone que eso me salvará a mí de ella? El monstruo se puso de pie cuan largo era, y miró a Conor desde las alturas. - No es de ella de quien necesitas salvarte.

But there are harder things than being invisible, it said

Si dices la verdad –le susurró el monstruo al oído-, podrás enfrentarte a todo lo que venga.