Quotes About Resilience

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all. Not superwoman? he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. You've lied to me all these years!

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne)

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.

Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him so much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard I said. Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves he said. I smiled. Yeah.

Nill illigitamus carborundum

Revenge was always the easy part; the hard part was living with it afterward.

I think we can do it. But you don't know for sure, he said. No. Geez, Anita. Don't get rattled on me. We can do this. But you aren't sure. I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane. Was that supposed to be comforting? he asked. Yeah. It wasn't, he said. Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant. I'm not good at math. Me either.

I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by.

At least I'm not dead. That can be remedied. Jean-Claude & Richard

Most of the time you're ass deep in alligators.

All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn't into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself.

Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.

Love doesn't conquer all, but it can help you conquer everything else.

He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.

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

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

He did smile then, eyes gleaming. "You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

I was new and didn't realize that brand new writers are treated like light bulbs; when one burns out, you can always buy more, screw the next one in, and it lights up just as bright. No, I am not being too harsh about how publishing treats new writers. If anything I'm toning it down. Sorry, for all you aspiring authors out there, but truth is truth, it is a hard business. Shine up the armor around your ego, harden your heart, keep your head down, and write.