Quotes About Resilience

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

Believe this, Bitch.

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

Stop what? Cheering you up? Or is life supposed to stop because you did something horrible? I'll tell you the real horrible truth, Anita. No matter what you do or how bad you feel about it, life just goes on. Life doesn't give a fuck that you're sorry or upset or deranged or tormented. Life just goes on, and you gotta go on with it, or sit in the middle of the road and feel sorry for yourself. And I don't see you doing that.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite. At least I'm not dead. That can be remedied.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

Because everything worth having hurts.

If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Laurell K. Hamilton

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.