Quotes About Resilience

We'll start firing till they drop or we drop.

Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

Things are bad,they are,and they'll get much worse for ya soon,thats the truth.But down the road a piece,you'll be fightin' true and good.I can tell you're not a bloody sissy. -Newt

Your demons are always with you," Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. "Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

Sin importar que tan malas fueran las cosas, rendirse sólo las empeoraría.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

Phase Two. The Scorch Trials.

Everything crushed in on me at once. Sure made me feel better- don't feel bad about crying. Ever.

If we're gonna die, let's do it freakin' fighting!

You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear.

WICKED was never going to stop. They were never, never going to stop.

The number one Runner rule: "Never. Stop. Running

The kid was his brother in every way but blood - without him, Thomas would've broken long ago.

That's better," Mino said with a satisfied nod. "Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for their mommy?

I want to be a Runner.

James Dashner

Yeah, we've heard that before. This time we mean it. We're not going to sit back and let you treat us like rats anymore. We're done.

Thomas knew what he thought. Those images would never leave—the Gladers would be haunted by the horrible things that had happened in the Maze for the rest of their lives. He figured that most if not all of them would have major psychological problems. Maybe even go completely nutso.

he didn't feel as if dying would be the easy way out.

You're all still here because of an uncanny will to survive despite the odds, among … other reasons.

No. Just thinking about how much my life sucks." "Mine does, too. Sucks big-time. But I'm glad I'm with you.

wouldn't allow himself to give in to Minho's hopelessness—he didn't want to give up