Quotes About Resilience

Shoot low, boys. They're ridin' Shetland ponies.

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I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

There was such fear in the world. But love was everywhere if you looked. It was the best thing about humans. That they could stare into the abyss and still open up their hearts. A spit in the eye to fear.

Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it's gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged? The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. We're all damaged somehow.

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die. He winks. But not without one hell of a fight.