Quotes About Resilience

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no "therapy" that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

posting will be at the unemployment office." "I don't think

People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody

Humans were imperfect beings operating in a world over which they had diminishing control.

It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.

Facing fear is better than running from it, he said. What if it's fear you can't beat? Then it might be better to be dead, he answered.

David Baldacci

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She would soon have somewhere to go. It was always important to keep going. Stationary objects tended to get run over.

There are times in everyone's life when loss strikes. When one's heart breaks. And there are times when you truly feel as though you have no heart left, so shattered is it.

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David Baldacci

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.

And it was a good thing. Because despite all the unsettling things that his mind had been doing while he was here, the ability to be hugged or have your hand clenched by another without flinching, that simple act, which just about everyone else took for granted, had brought Decker a bit closer to the person he had once been. Before he had died on a football field and woken up as someone else entirely.

David Baldacci

And yet a man with nothing to live for is a powerful man indeed. Perhaps

DB. What finally got

vacant at first light. Yet she carried