Quotes About Resilience

Born Smart. Born Tough. Born FBI

Ouch!" The manicurist who'd just relieved me of part of my cuticle submerged my feet in bubbling water. Hot water. "Oh, hush," Lily said. "It feels good. Beauty is pain." "Pain," I gritted out, "is also pain.

She loved him. It hurt to love him, and she loved him anyway.He left her, and she loved him anyway.

I looked down at my hands, unable to meet her eyes. My wrists were still angry and red. The raw skin looked how I felt.

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

I don't do vulnerable. It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.

Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call "easy". Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.

Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.

Someone tried to kill me, and I'm going swimming. I'm going swimming, because it doesn't matter. I'm going swimming, because I don't matter. I'm going swimming, because that's what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.

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]

Between the fire and a storm that night," Alisa said, once she'd recovered, "Toby's remains were never definitively found.

Got that out of your system, did you?" I leaned against the wall of my gemstone cage. "Why are you telling me this now?" I could hear the sound of his footstep on the end of the line. "Because Gray is going to keep jumping until it hurts. He's always been the solid one, Heiress. The one who never trembles, never backs down, never doubts. And now, he's lost his mooring, and I have to be the strong one.

Some people like having their friends aroun when things get tough,and some people need to be alone. When she/he ready to talk, she/he will talk.

I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.

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

The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

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.

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I moved closer to Rebecca, whose arms were wrapped around her middle, like all she could do was stand there and just keep taking the blows.

Zodra Alisa eenmaal een onderwerp had aangesneden, kreeg je haar ongeveer net zo makkelijk van haar spoor als een hogesnelheidstrein.

If you let this be a game, it doesn't have to hurt.

To Grayson's credit, he gave up trying to lose me pretty quickly.