Quotes About Adversity

In the past six weeks, I'd been shot at, blown up, kidnapped, and paraded around as the living, breathing embodiment of Cinderella stories. To the world, I was a scandal, a mystery, a curiosity, a fantasy.

What is the human condition, if not Why me?

Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

Everything hurts." Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. "It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.

Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.

Hawthornes aren't supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.

I wasn't built for running away from monsters. I wanted desperately to run toward them--track them down, kill them. Luckily, I was used to restraining myself, used to acting human even when I wasn't, and the human part of my brain reminded me that right now, preternatural beasties weren't exactly my primary concern. Someone had made a strong attempt at killing me this morning....

A few months ago, she'd gotten a tattoo, a single word inked from wrist bone to wrist bone, just under the heel of her hand. SURVIVOR.

We just hadn't figured on Fighting life.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I'd realized.

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Ready." Libby looked down at the water balloons she held in each hand–and at her twin tattoos: SURVIVOR on one wrist, and on the other ... TRUST.

Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.

Well then, Heiress." Jameson stepped forward. Standing directly to my side, he brought his lips down to my ear and whispered, "Game on.

Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives

Yeah, things happen for a reason, but most of the time that reason isn't fate or because it was predestined. It's because the world sucks, or someone out there is being an asshole.

I'm not scared of this place. I'm not afraid to learn how to think like a killer, and I'm not afraid of you. [Cassandra Hobbes]

You may be tested by the flames, but you need not burn.

It didn't matter if my ribs hurt. It didn't matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora's fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn't afford to be weak or human at a time like this.

You may be tested by flames but you need not burn

Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.