Quotes About Resilience

Not like that," Ellery whispered, rubbing Jackson's lip with his thumb now. "Like… like you were fading from us, transparent. Like you had given up your body, your life with me, because it was just too damned hard." "It was hard," Jackson admitted.

And he was kind. So damned kind. A man like me… a man like me did not take kindness for weakness. Kindness in the face of all the tiny knives the world had to throw at a body—that was real strength.

broken. "Please, God. Let him live." He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.

Jonah kissed him with an open mouth and a full heart and tried to tell him with his bare body that sometimes you didn't have to break. Sometimes being human was strong enough. Ethan breathed through him and then took over the kiss, rolling over, giving Jonah shelter from the chill in the room and the sudden somberness between them.

We're all broken inside a little. You step on us in the right places, we're gonna fucking shatter.

Set the table. The vegetables are overdone. The chicken's dry. Dinner is ruined. Let's eat.

You're so beautiful," he murmured. "So beautiful. You're kind and smart and the best lover I will ever have. And I love you. And you probably don't believe that and think I'm too young, but I've believed I was in love a thousand times, and this is the first time it made me better. Made me stronger. Made me someone who can really love and not someone who is constantly begging for what the world won't give me. You did that.

If basketball loves me as much as I've loved this sport, then it's not going to care who I am when I play it. If the world hates me more than it loves basketball, then I'd say that's the world's loss.

And…." Oh! Kelly's boy was crying. Crying so hard he couldn't breathe. Crying so hard he could barely talk! Kelly's arms were sprained at the shoulders, because two guys had held them behind him and he'd struggled, oh, he'd struggled so fucking hard. Carefully he raised his hand to cup Seth's cheek and saw the bruises, then felt his stomach go cold. "Seth? Seth… mijo. What did you do?

Your ass is trying to make shit into diamonds," Mackey snapped,

You live. Whether I'm out there or not, you live. Because leaving you is going to be like ripping my arms off, and my lungs, and all the other things, and the only thing keeping me from bleeding out is going to be knowing you're okay. So you find a purpose, you start school, you fall in love again, but you live!

It's hard to look for another man when your sky turns black and the world has crumbled up and turned to powder. I don't have a spare heart in my pocket in case you don't learn to duck and I lose you. You have to have faith in the world to love, Jackson. You are my faith. Don't take my faith away from me.

I'm not leaving, and I'm not giving up. I think I've finally learned my lesson. Men stay.

Yeah, you gotta stomp down on your emotions until they rise up, grab you by the throat, shake you around a little, and then grind you into the pavement. I've done that.

You're a hero for walking away," Jackson said soberly. "You're a hero for pressing charges. You're a hero for dealing with that for eleven years and still believing in the good in people. You'll never fool me again, asshole. I know who I'm dealing with now." Henry's eyes burned.

God, Con. The way he talked about you—I'm surprised you didn't go stark-raving bonkers in public sooner. But then I guess we both know which one of you was stronger.

But whether you're fixed or broke I need you to come back Just promise me no matter what You'll still be coming back I'll put together all your pieces If only you come back.

Some people got family, and those people I can get behind. But none of us—not you, or me, or hell, Kaden, who's the best man I know—can go out and change the fucking world without a lot of pain and suffering. So it's okay that's not how this started. What matters is that you ended it.

the trips to rehab—but… but if I left, maybe he'd find a way without me. Because staying wasn't doing him any good.

My father taught me to judge and judge hard and judge mean. And I learned that lesson so well, I judged myself right into a fucking corner." "And then what?" Lance asked. "I gnawed off my own leg to get out of it." Henry let out a broken laugh.

I may have loved someone again, but there'd be a big chunk of my heart missing in that, because a thing like that just doesn't grow back, you hear?

Crick once showed up at a crash site and said, "Holy God, no wonder the guy didn't make it!" right before the victim opened his eyes and said, "I'm still alive, jackass, now help get this fence post out of my chest!

If he'd grown up in Death Valley, he figured driving an ambulance in Kuwait wouldn't feel like the seventh sphincter of the armpit demon living in hell's tenth colon.

Amal regarded him with that steady adult expression, the new one that had come after the former administration had destroyed everybody's innocence and COVID had taken their hope. "Just tell me where to apply," he said.