Quotes About Adversity

No matter the species, the deadliest gender is always the female. Men will fight until they die. Women will take it to the grave and then find a way back .

You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar) I don't know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn't really fit, does it? Besides, I can't make things too easy on you. What's life without pain? (Sin)

Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat)

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

I take it that didn't go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I don't get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian) Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon)

Susan: ...My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

And if we fail? (Delphine) It'll suck to be human. (Madoc)

Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.

And yet you live. (Wulf) Ever the better to procreate for you. It's a hell of a life. (Chris)

The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shape. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Aunt Mari says that the assholes in our lives are our biggest blessings. How so? Without them, we'd take the ones who aren't for granted. Assholes give us needed perspective to appreciate the people who really love us.

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

It was a typical day of suckage and blowage.' (Chris)

It's all about perspective, my friend. That and the ability to duck fast when life throws excrement at you. -Maris

You have no idea how many times I've been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it's for my protection. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

We don't have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him." – Sundown "Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you're looking through. 'Cause from where I've been standing, we've been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again." – Sasha

You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of a mountain. (Kasen)

At this point, they were mired so deep in the mud of Shit City, he might as well have his mail forwarded.' – Sundown

You don't tap on the Devil's shoulder unless you're willing to dance to his tune.

When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

life, like war, is neither right nor wrong. It just is. And rather than worry over a philosophy you can't change, you should just try to live through it as best you can.

As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone who cast a jaundiced eye or who made a comment about either him, his mother, or his sister. He'd told himself that he didn't need anyone's love or caring. And so he had learned to live like a feral animal, always ready to strike out when someone tried to touch him.