Quotes About Resilience

I can't change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.

The bad things are some of my favorites," Peter said.

I bit Tiger Lily, as hard as I could. I don't know how I thought it would help. Fairie bites are worse than wasp stings - they pierce and burn and ache all at the same time. As best, I knew, I'd be swatted away, and at worst she might crush me by accident in her reaction to the pain. But what happened was worse. She didn't seem to notice it at all. It was like Tiger Lily herself wasn't even really there.

I'm not myself.' '...You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

Forget him. Forget him.

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsy hearts.

Wendy's heart beat for Peter immediately-there was no slow growing, no dark distrustfulness like Tiger Lily had had, no hesitation. Wendy didn't believe in situations she couldn't bend to fit her, so there was no need to be distrustful. She had the blissful confidence of someone who had never been put in a pot of turkey broth to die.

Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.

I don't care if there are cracks in us, we are still us. We don't have to be perfect to be right.

And then a strong gust blew against her, and her feet slipped just slightly. She jerked forward against the railing, ever so softly. But, rotten, it crumbled like paper, and May and Kitty went sliding forward, right through it. May scrambled to stop herself, but it was too late. They slid a few more feet, then fell off the edge of the roof. They looked like blackbirds faliing out through the sky.

may yes can you carry me asked pumpkin No

She thought of all the things she'd forgotten to be scared of.

what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.

I know I'll miss it forever, but I also know that I can't give into that. As much as I've always loved Canaan and loved you, I want my life to go forward even if it hurts. And I've decided I have to reach for what I want even if my hands are trembling from fear. I'm sorry, Ellis, but I'm not coming home.

I guess people are right when they say that time helps grief. I don't agree that it heals, but maybe it wraps our losses up deeper and deeper inside so we can get on with being alive.

When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they'd thought it was or if in England it was different.

I've never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

But the last time they were all at the orchard together, Birdie only found one lone blossom, drying up. She took it with her and tucked it in her hair. What mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, and it was what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.

Wound make you deeper and bigger. The bigger the challenges you face, the bigger and deeper your soul gets.