Quotes About Resilience

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.

Mortals are fragile,' I say. 'Not you,' he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. 'You never break.

A heart of stone can still be broken.

What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

Well, even if the serpent bites off your head," says Tatterfell, "the rest of you will still look good." "That's the spirit," I tell her.

The only way to end grief was to go through it.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

You didn't get what you deserved, but you don't have to live inside that one story forever. No one's heart has to remain stone.

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.

Guard your mortal heart.

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to removes it.

Cardan gazes at a rosebush with petals so black and glossy they look like patent leather. ¨It was terrifying,¨ he says, ¨watching you fall. I mean, you´re generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.¨ ¨Mortals are fragile,¨ I say. ¨Not you,¨ he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. ¨You never break.¨ Page 159

Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.

Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down.

I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it

It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.