Quotes About Resilience

Just when you think you've sunk as far as it's possible to sink, there's always a lower place. There's always something worse to be scared about.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done being weak. I am done being good. I think I am going to be something else.

She reminded herself that there was nothing they could do to her. She was already like them. Already dead.

Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet there is always so much more to do.

only under the water can I allow myself to weep. Only under the water can I admit that I almost died and that I was terrified and that I wish there was someone to whom I could tell all that. I hold my breath until there's no more breath to hold.

Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.

I couldn't be the child that they had loved. Not after everything that happened to me. Not after learning that I am made of sticks and snow.

Everything ought to be as it was before, except it isn't. Whenever my hand brushes Oak's as he passes me a piece of bread or a skin of water, I can't help but notice. When we sleep in shifts, one of us left to navigate by the stars, I am drawn to watching his face, as though through his dreams, I will learn his secrets.

Since I never intended to quit, it's nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." ? Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks," Taryn says. "Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

People make mistakes. Get over it. You thought he was Mr Right but you were wrong. He thought you were his angel but he was wrong. Dwelling on the past will get you nowhere.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I'd discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.

And I'd learned that maybe that's what life was all about, one thing after another. One small moment. Good or bad.

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

was invincible.

May you live in interesting times. She thought maybe it was a Chinese curse.

Holly Jacobs

This ancient Pinto was held together with sheer willpower and a whole lot of prayer. But she wasn't going to let her old jalopy ruin her perfect mood either.

Any family can fall apart, Annie. It's those that manage to stay together after surviving what life throws at them that deserve a little extra respect.

She understood now that knowing when to walk away and when to hunker down and refuse to leave were equally difficult decisions to make in a marriage; that going back didn't have to mean settling; and that the most fulfilling times weren't always before a storm, but sometimes long after the dust had settled, when you were able to lift your chin and see what was left standing so you could wrap yourself around it with all of the wonder it deserved.