Quotes About Resilience

Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.

Don't ever be sorry for being who you are. Most of us go our whole lives not really getting it right, just settling." He tugged a strand of her hair. "Do you have any idea the strength it takes to not settle? To keep pushing and seeking for what works?

He had three incision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in and two where they'd done the actual work, and the abuse he'd taken today went straight to her heart. "Oh, Pace." "I'm guessing that wasn't an 'Oh, Pace, you're so sexy, take me.'

You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.

When you find someone who knows you're not perfect but treats you as if you are anyway, someone whose biggest fear is losing you, it's worth whatever you have to go through.

I really am all sorts of messed up… Well you're not alone there.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom. someone will hand you a shovel.--- Phoebe Traeger

The good news is your head's still attached to your shoulders," Cole said. "And the bad news?" Tanner asked. "The hit doesn't appear to have knocked any sense into you.

Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal

When life knocks you down," she said to Lanie after getting yelled at by a very rude customer, "calmly get back up, smile, and very politely say 'You hit like a bitch, bitch.

Apparently some things, like Cheetos finger stains and the searing pain of grief, couldn't be fixed.

Are you okay? Fan-fricking-tastic. Only way today could get better is if I were scheduled for an appendectomy. Without drugs. In a third-world country.

I'm tougher than this." He shook his head. "Somehow it doesn't matter how tough you are. You can be tough as hell and still be leveled flat without warning." She looked at him. "What do you do when you're leveled flat?" "You make a plan, you move on that plan, and you keep breathing

Because if she had to be off-track and a little lost, then she was going to have fun while she was at it, dammit.

This was not how she'd envisioned the day going when she got up this morning and made that bargain with God, the one where she promised to be a better person if he gave her a whole day where she didn't have to face anything from her past. But God had just reneged on the deal. Which meant she didn't have to be a better person…

I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.

Lily drew him in with those eyes, her voice, the outer toughness she showed the world, the inner vulnerability she did her best to hide.

Hope was elusive, and a total bitch.

Just making sure you're okay." "Why wouldn't I be?" she asked, trying to be a cool cucumber. This got her another mouth twitch. "I don't know, Speed Racer, maybe because you came in hot and just lost a fight with a manzanita bush. Do you need help?" "No, thank you." He gave her car a look of doubt.

She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Chloe Traeger

Be smart. Be brave. Be vulnerable.

How ironic was it that in order to get her fresh start, she'd have to face her past?

She had to let go of the things she couldn't control. It hurt too much otherwise.