Quotes About Resilience

And then crumpled on a muffled shriek, because he'd hit a stud in a load-bearing wall and broken three bones in his wrist and hand.

I'll be on the couch, bleeding through a number two pencil.

love working out," Ethan said sincerely. "I mean, at first I did it because, well, I was hanging out with the kids who got the crap beat out of them most of the time. But now? Man, just… just having that much power over your body? It's priceless. The whole world can be falling to shit, but

Cause when they're pissed at me, at least they know I'm there," Mackey said. "You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can't do that when someone wants to slug you.

That's the bullshit you're having trouble with. There's no beating someone at life. There's just living your life the

best you can. You can. I think you're doing okay, man. I really do.

The man I fought with, the man who comforted me, the man who tried valiantly to slay my inner dragons on a daily basis, in spite of their preference for the tender flesh near his heart.

Are you the child of divorce, Tino? Did anybody you know die? Did you ever, once, not have enough to eat?" "No, sir," Tino said, shamed.

Would that change? With enough peace, enough joy, would hope stop being the traitor at Deacon's table? Someday, maybe. Someday, maybe hope would be his friend.

This was a problem when he hit the pothole in the shitty road, broke the axle, and got thrown headfirst into the windshield at twenty-five miles an hour.

Suddenly Mackey knew—they'd both been hurt. The only thing that had put the hurt to an end for Grant had been the end itself. Mackey had been

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

Jeffy the weak is the guy who would have bailed on you to cry in his room while your mother took you to the hospital. As God is my witness, Collin Waters, you are never going to meet Jeffy the weak.

If I'm lucky, someday I'll figure a way out of porn and end up with a guy who works at a gas station but doesn't mind my fifty-dozen allergies and big mouth.

How resilient did someone have to be to have gone through all of that and still have a laugh that rang through the trees like bells, making them holy?

People shouldn't be given up," she said, her voice sinking. "Not if they make you happy." He smiled a little.

Dad was close to the kid, and he was devastated. He came home and yelled at the kitchen table for having dings in it, and at the counters for being old, and then he sat on the kitchen floor and cried. Mom came out of her room and sat down next to him, and they cried together,

Smart, tough, fearless—tears were a sign of nothing but an emotional trigger system that didn't mesh well with mascara

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

It's when we refuse to change in the face of upheaval that we fail.

Me neither," he whispered. "You take all the lovers you need, but I will never fall in love again.

HE LITERALLY had to make every damned out himself.

Because the songs that don't make the listener feel like barbed wire is ripping through their chest make them feel like someone's stitching up the wound with a rusty needle and a bottle of scotch for the pain. It's

Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.