Quotes About Resilience

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave

Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that.

Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame.

They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than gutter out like a dim flame.

At least I won't die a slave," Maerad answered. Proud words, she thought, but she meant them.

I am what I am, all the things that have happened to me, all the things I have ever learned, as well as all the things that were born inside me.

Everything is difficult," she whispered. "Maybe that's something else that I've learned.

This time I could be your lunatic daughter," said Maerad. "If that would help." She messed up her hair, trailing tresses across her face in witch-locked tangles, and adopted a slack-jawed expression. Cadvan laughed grimly. "I'm beginning to think that in some respects your education was quite thorough," he said.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.

Even for the luckiest of us, life is mostly pain, with moments of happiness thrown in just to keep us vertical.

She deserves that feeling, that lightness, the ability to move, to live again. We deserve it. I raise my glass to karma—which,

I am capable. I am capable. I am capable.

Joan once told me she thought compartmentalizing gets a bad rap—especially when it comes to people like us, who have been through something so traumatic; ignoring it for long periods of time can be a means of survival. When you've been through fire, you can't feel that burn every day, she explained. You have to go on with your life.

She knows she doesn't. She knows everything her son took from us, because she isn't an idiot. But she survives on delusions, and the more people believe those delusions, the stronger she gets. I'm not interested in helping her feel better. She can fuck right off.

The Nazis have given up

Are you frightened now?" I nodded, shame flushing my skin. "Is it going to stop you?" "No." "That is the courage of a warrior.

Or perhaps one's foes always seemed smaller once they had been defeated.

There was a saying that the strength of a man's steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.