Quotes About Resilience

scars may look stronger than unwounded skin, but they're not once broken, we're hurt again, or worse

There is one good thing about not eating," I said. "What would that be?" Greenlaw asked. "We've got nothing to fart with.

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a winter girl

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

What are these scars from? she asked. They're battle wounds, I replied. She looked at me for a long time. Who were you battling? Myself.

Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy.

Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

It's harder to take a punch than to give one.

Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it

The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.

12. I wasn't just encased in hardening concrete up to my chin; it was pouring down my throat. I was in a race to see if I would die from the outside in or the inside out.

I could only fix myself

This is life with your head inside the jaws of the beast.

If you touch me, I'll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand.

She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then

But anyways, you let me down, Ken, but I've made my peace with it. With you. With the confused girl-child who used to be me. And Barbie? I've got nothing to say to that bitch. Not till she learns to walk flat-footed, like a real woman.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Mom, picking out bits of grain from roll: You're alive because of Dr. Parker. Lia, bleeding where they can't see: Stop exaggerating.

You been too strong," she said firmly. "I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. " - Serafina Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson

But if you survived melancholia and rotting lungs it was possible to live long in this valley.

Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

Things in my environment had gotten a little bit out of my control, as things sometimes do. I mean, we can't control every little facet of our world all of the time...

Because we are superwomen. Because it's how we are. We're high, we're sleep deprived, and we're still doing all the shit. If my husband doesn't get his full eight hours, he'll mention it the whole next day, as if he spent the dark time keeping flesh-eating zombies from gaining entry to our house. Not middle-aged women. They get up from a bed they've never slept in, put on an underwire and some mascara, and do it all over again. And no one knows.