Quotes About Resilience

He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, "To freaks everywhere." Vidocq holds up his mug. "May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.

What happened to your face?" she says idly. "Which time?" "The new one." "I got shot.

What I do know is that a famous dead guy once said, "Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed-wire handle.

If I'm going to ride this out and stay alive, then I'm king high ballbuster. I took on God and almost did the old man in. A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time.

It's more than coping. It's adaptation. You go into the dark one species and mutate to fit your surroundings. Grow better eyes and ears. Get used to the feel of the air so you can tell when something is coming at you. After a while you're so suited to the environment you're a whole new species.

Thanks, but sometimes I think my sins are the only thing holding me together

LOS ANGELES IS a busted jukebox in a forgotten bar at the ass end of the high desert. The city only exists between the pops, skips, and scratches of the old 45s.

I just lie there like an upside-down turtle trying to right itself.

You really are lousy with people being nice to you." "It's easier getting punched.

Stumbling back, I shout fire hoodoo, but they walk right through that. I can't think straight. I know there are other ways to hurt them, but my brain has flatlined.

Janet keeps stabbing and all clever Dan can think to do is roll up like an armadillo and hope he grows armor.

ONCE UPON A time I was a regular jackass living a regular jackass life.

How is he?" she says, looking at Kasabian. "He'll be fine. Sore as hell for a while, but fine." "We should all be so lucky." "True. Janet tells me that you're still waiting for a final Immigration interview." She nods infinitesimally.

What's that old Sunday school warning about how if you fight dragons too long, you can become one? That's been spinning around in my head for years, long enough that I know I'd rather be a dragon than a sheep to the slaughter.

What if you get eaten?" "You won't let that happen." "Honestly, I'm annoyed. I just might.

There's nothing I could have done about it then and there's nothing I can do about it now and that's what I have to live with. Maybe that right there is the definition of life. Being alive is learning how to live with the intolerable.

I hurt like I just climbed out of a cement mixer, and the shot that grazed my side burns like hell. But I don't have time to whine right now.

Look on the bright side. You didn't bleed all over my clean floor," Kasabian says. "Your floor was always my utmost concern.

For a second, nothing happens and I'm sure that I've reached a new level of fucked. Then the hardpack around the rib shatters and I haul it out of the ground like a deranged Fred Flintstone.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

I suppose I'll get over Janet, but it's going to be a long, sad process finding a new donut place.

I've swallowed enough sand that I'm going to shit cinder blocks.

Things are bad enough without getting cancer too," he says. "It's never too late to develop bad habits.

Start talking or we're going to see if you can dog-paddle through fire. I wonder if fried Hellion tastes like spicy or original recipe?