Quotes About Adversity

I still had fifteen cents that I hadn't given to Pa, and I was using it that afternoon to buy candy for my sisters. Abby had her monthlies and was feeling awfully blue. She'd had the cramp something wicked that morning and had to lie down until it passed, and Pa asked me why she wasn't in the barn milking with the rest of us like he always does because he forgets, and then I had to explain and he got mad at me because it made him embarrassed.

A girl who understood that a queen's heart was made to break. Over and over again. And Sophie knew that hers would, too. When crops failed and people starved. When plague descended. When war swept its red cloak over the land.

Death wins only if you let her.

But life isn't a fairy tale, Belle.

Roses have thorns, and thorns leave wounds.

Difficulties are things that show people what they are!

Te diré qué mata a las muchachas: el hambre, la enfermedad, los accidentes, el parto y la violencia. Se necesita algo más que un corazón herido para matar a una mujer. Las mujeres son fuertes como rocas.

El mundo sigue adelante, estúpido y brutal. Pero yo no. Yo no.

We all make mistakes," Lucanos said. "The danger lies in letting those mistakes make us." "Make us what?" asked Belle. "Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up," the beetle said, giving Belle a very direct look.

Isabelle had a strong will. She did not know that this was a good thing for a girl to have, because everyone had always told her it was a terrible thing. Everyone said a girl with a strong will would come to a bad end. Everyone said a girl's will must be bent to the wishes of those who know what's best for her. Isabelle was young, only sixteen; she had not yet learned that everyone is a fool.

Everyone said a girl with a strong will would come to a bad end. Everyone said a girl's will must be bent to the wishes of those who know what's best for her. Isabelle was young, only sixteen; she had not yet learned that everyone is a fool.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.

Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

I had cancer, you fuck!

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.

It only hurts at first," she said. "After a while you can't feel anything." Mr. Styles grinned as if her reply were a ball he'd taken physical pleasure in catching. "Words to live by," he said

Problems he couldn't solve made him angry.

In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?

Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?