Quotes About Resilience

Pain will pull you down. It will break you. And when you lose everything else, it will be the only thing that never lets you go. It's a bitch I don't like. Better to not let anyone get close, huh? Better to not let the pain inside. Better to put up your wall and block everyone else from touching your heart.

A woman could do a whole lot in this world without a heart.

She'd fight until she was broken. She would NOT give up.

You have to fight to live.

She was a bit thinner, and there was a new delicacy to her that hadn't been there before. Probably because of the recent attack she'd suffered. He'd heard that Rachel had been in the hospital. A knife attack. Some crazed fool had attacked Rachel in her own apartment. He'd been furious at the news. No one else was supposed to kill Rachel. She was his.

When it's not easy, you have to remember: things always get better.

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. We define ourselves.

Oh that was good. Reminded her why she'd gone with him that first night. He'd been tall, strong, and she'd taken one look at him and realized-The kind of man who never fears. A man who fights. Who wins. A guy strong enough to face the dark with her.

Afraid that he'd be like one of those horrible movie monsters that just rose again and again and kept attacking until everyone else was dead. "Ava!

She didn't even have to look back. She'd made her choice. She didn't need to look into a broken mirror any longer.

Danton himself was an astonishing man, with a face so scarred and ugly that it by-passed the normal rules of beauty and had an attractiveness of its own. At two he had been gored in the face by a cow, trampled by a herd of pigs at five, disfigured by small pox when he was ten, and kicked in the face by a bull when he was fourteen.

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

When Mo and Ringo parted in 1974 she had been so heartbroken that she got on a motorbike and drove it straight into a brick wall, badly injuring herself.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

I)t's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.

Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.

Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up?

To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.

I didn't like to quit anything, but sometimes things just don't work out and it's better to admit it and try something else.