Quotes About Resilience

and I laugh like nothing ever happened. I feel normal again, whatever that is.

Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

I barely have to say anything, not even, "I'm not ready." It's in the unwritten rulebook of life, under How to React When a Student Loses a Loved One and Is, Nine Months Later, Still Having a Very Hard Time.

Because as tough as she is, she needs something to believe in.

My legs are long, so I can cover a lot of ground, even if I have to dodge people left and right and sometimes leap over their heads. This is easy to do because they move in slow motion, like a herd of zombies or slugs.

I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.

The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

The Candence of has begun. - I am in pieces.

You almost drowned Roamer? Something like that Always finish what you start man.

Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.

Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

And even though the ache of that heartbreak hurts like hell, it's so much better than feeling nothing.

She taught me from childhood that my mountain was waiting, and she never stopped encouraging me to keep climbing.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy.

for Christ's sake, stay alive.

It's not moving on, Libbs. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.

A girl's life is the worst life in the world. A girl's life is: you are born, you bleed, you burn.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what an you do? You can't stop living.

I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

Everyone goes on with their lives, and maybe I can't keep up. Maybe I don't want to.

I realized that as bad as it is not to know, the not knowing is something too. You can still do something with that.

Theodore FinchI was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.

Because it's time I fear.