Quotes About Resilience

If he couldn't go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had.

I hadn't chosen my gift, and I hadn't chosen Alonzo either, but here we were. There was so much you didn't get to choose. The hard way was going to be very hard. It would be a long, long time before I felt safe and warm again.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

Every morning he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—

There is really no end to life's little humiliations,

Quentin was perfectly capable of taking care of himself, except when he wasn't.

It was still possible that five years from now, when they were more or less over their post-traumatic stress disorder, they'd all get a big kick out of getting together and talking about it.

Give 'em Hades.

Buddha going down with the ship, while the bed gradually swamped, and the cold seawater lapped up over his knees.

But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.

I want you to know that I mean it in the kindest possible way when I say that you are being the most unbelievable pussy.

He wasn't very far from the bitter, angry teenager he'd been in Brooklyn, before this all started, and thank God for that. But the funny thing was that after all this time he still didn't think that that miserable teenager had been wrong. He didn't disagree with him -he still felt solidarity with him in major points

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you." Quentin's

His mind was an icy pond constantly in danger of thawing. He trod on it only lightly-its surface was perilously slick and who knew how thin. To break through would mean immersion in what was below: cold, dark anaerobic water and angry, toothy fish. The fish were memories. He wanted to put them away somewhere and forget where he'd put them, but he couldn't.

It's not the worst thing in the world, admitting you need help. is it?

She'd broken her staff and drowned her book and sworn off magic forever.

Trees were fucking mental in a fight, it turned out.

Maybe she was crazy, but she wasn't stupid. She'd seen Terminator 2. She wasn't going out like Sarah Connor.

Tal pregunta no tenía otra respuesta que la que la vida da a todas las preguntas irresolubles: vivir el día y procurar olvidar.

Er zijn in het leven weinig omstandigheden waaraan de mens niet went, vooral wanneer hij ziet dat iedereen in zijn omgeving ze aanvaardt.

After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.

More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.