Quotes About Resilience

sometimes it takes balls to walk away. Do it now while you can still enjoy life.

I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. (...) I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long

Paul's story to have a happier ending—for ourselves

can't do that, Greg, not now. If we walk away, the bad guys win again. Hugo died for nothing. BJC would be a joke. No. I'm still in.

The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam. They would cut back to fifteen hours a day, six days a week.

Lacy enjoyed the quiet. She handled most of her cases alone, as did her colleagues. Deeper cuts had decimated the

The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw.

His wife and kids would stick by him, weather the embarrassment and move on. It was, after all, Texas, a land where pasts were easily forgotten if one picked up the pieces and made more money. There was also a certain admiration for outlaws.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

I was never a bully and I never started a fight. And I didn't like to fight, but if the other guy pushed me around, then I hit him back.

Theo could think of nothing but April and of her miserable home life, her warring parents, her scarred brother and sister

I've learned to bite my tongue. My tongue has scars.

Roberta se quedó estoicamente sentada, con las manos debajo de las piernas.

Samantha closed her eyes for a few seconds and tried to put it all in perspective. Yesterday morning she had arrived at her desk in the world's largest law firm, one that paid her handsomely and had the promise of a long, profitable career. Now, about thirty hours later, she was unemployed, sitting in the café at Kramerbooks and trying to hustle her way into a temporary, unpaid gig about as deep in the boonies as one could possibly wander.

into its third year

sleep a few hours in the cockpit and take off at dawn. The

Tee Ray met a crack runner called Tox.

Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.

This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.

he was immune to pain, an unstoppable machine of muscle and sinew.

but next day returned with a force.

had been the marigold turning to face the sun.

Mary of Guise, whose emblem, or impresa, was the phoenix.

But if Mary sometimes lapsed into pessimism, she never forgot she was a queen.