Quotes About Resilience

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

Goodbye, wizard." And the slender girl flung me like a baseball at the stone of my fireplace. Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

none of us ever really escapes the past. It just keeps coming back to haunt you.

I get more threats before nine a.m. than most people get all day

The thing about creatures as big as the Jotun is that they come without power steering.

Any will can be broken.

Ease up on yourself, man. You can't change the past.

All right, so. The entire day wasn't a living hell. But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.

Mr. Dresden," Parker growled. He eyed me up and down. "What exactly makes you think you can stop me from killing you?" I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. "Oh, I don't know," I chuckled. "Maybe because the second you step out of line, I'm going to wreck you a whole hell of a lot worse than that truck. And because in just a couple of minutes, the police are going to be arriving to sort you out.

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

terrified. What it does to you to see the power of darkness

I'm aware of my limits. That isn't the same as liking them. (Karrin Murphy)

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

I closed the door behind me, while life went on.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

No matter how severe Vadderung's people might be, they're always cheered by the chance to give you a hard time.

The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn't kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. It got me moving.

bullies either. He'd be glad to have

she was something much more dangerous than that. She was disciplined, rigidly self-restrained, and she didn't give way to either the demonic parasite that made her a monster or anyone else who would try to force her into doing something she didn't want to do.

I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car