Quotes About Resilience

David, I feel like the fucking Road Runner. Your corporate staff is like a pack of coyotes. They spend all their time setting traps, trying to get me." Massaro's Office Products Division adopted the Road Runner cartoon character as their mascot.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.

Sometimes it takes courage—maybe all the courage you've got—to just live life.

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

New York City had a short memory for violence

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

there was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life

Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive.

All the great pillars of my life are crumbling. I must constantly remind myself that I am not the only grieving person in the world. And yet, the loss of Reba is a terrible cross to bear and I do not think I have the strength for it.

Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.

Douglas Preston

She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

some kind of head injury that took him a decade to recover from.

The survivors are deprived of that vital human connection to their past; they are robbed of their stories, their music and dance, their spiritual practices and beliefs—they are stripped of their very identity.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

One biologist told me that what probably saved many indigenous Indian cultures from complete extinction were the mass rapes of native women by European men; many of the babies from those rapes inherited European genetic resistance to disease.

he was now feeling burnt out to the point of carbonization.

Douglas Preston

El moribundo frente marítimo al final había sucumbido al perverso huracán Yankee Clipper de 1938.

I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!