Quotes About Resilience

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

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.

When I'm with you," he began again, "it's like… I still don't feel normal. But I can see normal at twelve o'clock on the horizon." He pointed past me, through the windshield of an imaginary airplane. "At least I know normal is still out there. I've spent the last three months not sure of that at all.

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.

When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.

That still seemed like a good idea, back on failed attempt number three.

I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone

But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again. You must keep going. You must learn not to take no for an answer.

Feel the chain saw. Be the chain saw.

If she can't stand the heat, she needs to stay out of the kitchen," Mr. Rush insisted. "Or you could air-condition the kitchen," I said. "Or at least install a fan to ventilate some of the fumes.

I had cancer, you fuck!

If I'd been you and Manohar had said those things about my first story, I would have knocked his block off." All of this was said with a jovial smile on his cherubic face.

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

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

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

Men said "Girls are weak" when in fact girls made them weak.

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

It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckage of my life, and her words and thoughts and tiniest movements were precious.

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?