Quotes About Adversity

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.

bit like a mouse. She thought of MaryAnne again and

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

I think you're freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." "I've been through worse, Bex," I said, joining her on the lower stairs. "Way worse." "Oh, not the attack." Bex raised her finger in contradiction. "What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn't think you were going to have one.

And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.

You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be "You are enough to do this?" or "You're destined for a life of crime." It was a toss-up either way.

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me.

Maddie shrugged at that. She actually looked like she might start chanting, Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me .

I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.

She definitely wasn't going to think about how hot Logan looked because: (A) It was Logan! and (B) She'd heard stories about girls who met cute boys and then lost their heads, and being that they were currently being held by a knife-wielding, ticked-off Russian, Maddie really didn't want to find out how literal that saying might be.

I am my own worst enemy. But if there were to be a second place, it would go to this girl.

A sane person would be terrified by now, he knew, ranting and rambling and promising to give the man with the gun anything he wanted. But Logan had learned a long time ago that there was nothing you could give a man with a gun to make him happy. Men with guns were only satisfied when they took . And Logan was going to hang on to the last of his self-respect for as long as he possibly could.

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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Siempre queda una tristeza nueva por conocer, y un trapo roto y sucio para torearla.

no pasa nada. Nadie mata a nadie, nadie se suicida, nadie se muere de pena, y nadie llora más de tres días seguidos. A las dos semanas todos vuelven a engordar y a comer con apetito, te lo digo en serio. Si no fuera así, la vida se habría extinguido en este

Self pity is a hard drug.

La autocompasión es una droga muy dura.

si fuera más joven no estaría tan preocupada, porque para crisis, las que he tenido que chuparme yo, hijo mío. Pero nosotros podíamos, nosotros éramos fuertes, estábamos acostumbrados a sufrir, a emigrar, a pelear, y sin embargo, ahora...

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.