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Quotes About Resilience

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
~ William Goldman
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
~ William Goldman
Get used to disappointment.
~ William Goldman
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
~ William Goldman
The only way forward is to never look back.
~ William Goldman
Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning.
~ William Goldman
live your life its pain its pleasure leave no path untaken
~ William Goldman
She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.
~ William Goldman
You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.
~ William Goldman
I must know! Get used to disappointment.
~ William Goldman
He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone.
~ William Goldman
some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.
~ William Goldman
As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.
~ William Goldman
I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly.
~ William Goldman
don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped.
~ William Goldman
She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She
~ William Goldman
In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She
~ William Goldman
Estaba abrumado, sitiado, asediado. Derrotado. Por el hombre de negro.
~ William Goldman
any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.
~ William Goldman
Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
~ William Goldman
I mean, I really do think that love is the best things in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
~ William Goldman
Morgenstern has never given them an easy shot at happiness. This time I sure hope he lets them get there.
~ William Goldman
No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.
~ William Goldman
The man in black retreated before the slashing of the great sword. He tried to sidestep, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable. But there was no way. He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled. The
~ William Goldman