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Quotes About Resilience

Charlie's fingers closed around the bat and she pushed herself to her feet, shaking with adrenaline and fear and rage. With no good ideas, she was going to go for the bad one. They better carve that on her tomb. The Charlie Hall credo.
~ Holly Black
Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn't always being weak.
~ Holly Black
If i pretend not to be scared, I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.
~ Holly Black
Who would desire to be human? Human hearts break. Human bones shatter. Human skin can tear.
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.
~ Holly Black
It turns out I am far from done with making mistakes.
~ Holly Black
She looked down at herself, at the mess of her dress and the mess of her knees and the mess of everything. "I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.
~ Holly Black
You gotta be a shark in this business," Benny told her, with his soft voice and his slicked-back hair. "Sniff around for blood in the water.Greet life teeth first. And no matter what, never stop swimming.
~ Holly Black
Cardan hätte der Junge aus dem Herzen aus Stein aus Aslogs Geschichte sein sollen, doch irgendwie hatte er es zugelassen, dass sein Herz zu Glas geworden war. Mit jedem Atemzug spürte er die zerbrochenen Scherben in seiner Lunge.
~ Holly Black
The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away.
~ Holly Black
We can still walk away," Walk away. Wasn't that what she'd tried to do for years?
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." The Cruel Prince
~ Holly Black
Now what?' 'We wait for the sun together,' he says, his gaze going to the hot blush of the horizon. 'And no one dies.' He sits with her as red turns to gold, as blue edges out black. He sits with her as grey creeps over Aslog's skin, and he does not look away from the betrayal on her face as she becomes stone.
~ Holly Black
Against my shoulder she whispers, 'He's flint, you're tinder.
~ Holly Black
You did a brave thing. Be glad of that. Not everyone can be brave. I'm not always.
~ Holly Black
El amor no germina bien cuando se alimenta de dolor.
~ Holly Black
We show her that I am no feckless High king.' 'And how do we do that?' I ask. 'With great difficulty,' he says. 'Since I fear she is right.
~ Holly Black
Musisz mie? do?? si?y, by zadawa? cios za ciosem, cios za ciosem, nie poddaj?c si? znu?eniu. To pierwsza rzecz, jakiej musisz si? nauczy? - jak wykrzesa? z siebie te si??.
~ Holly Black
Do something!" someone says, but in my delirium, I can't tell who is speaking. Abruptly, Valerian is kicked off me. I roll onto my side, coughing. Cardan is looming there. Tears and snot are running down my face, but all I can do is lie in the dirt and spit out pieces of sweet, fleshy pulp. I have no idea why I am crying.
~ Holly Black
It's exhausting to watch someone try to be a ship that rocks will break against.
~ Holly Black
Cardan was left to be suckled by a little black cat whose kittens came stillborn.' 'He survived on cat milk?' I exclaim. ... I think again of the globe I held in Eldred's study, of Cardan dressed in rags, looking to the woman in my chamber for approval, which came only when he was awful. An abandoned prince, weaned on cat milk and cruelty, left to roam the palace like a little ghost.
~ Holly Black
I don't mind being one-handed,' Cardan interjects. 'But if you're going to restrain both of my hands, then you'll have to pour the wine directly in to my mouth.
~ Holly Black
Though he means me harm, I will miss him. I will miss the way he moves through the world, as though nothing could be so terrible that he might not laugh at it.
~ Holly Black
Jude, nie próbuj zrobi? tego na siÅ'Ä™. Pozwól, ?eby samo przyszÅ'o.
~ Holly Black