Quotes About Resilience

I didn't stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me.

shoved Target One away and smashed an elbow into Target Two's face. I tore the energy weapon out of Target Two's hand along with a few fingers, stabbed the weapon into its chest (it didn't have a sharp end but I made do) and ripped a large hole.

I had only taken three projectiles to the right shoulder, four to the left hip. This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.

I'm not normally afraid of things, the way humans are. I've been shot hundreds of times, so many times I stopped keeping count, so many times the company stopped keeping count. I've been chewed on by hostile fauna, run over by heavy machinery, tortured by clients for amusement, memory purged, etc., etc. But the inside of my head had been my own for +33,000 hours and I was used to it now. I wanted to keep me the way I was.

Kai." Ziede reached up to rub her face, apparently remembered her already ruined makeup, and planted her hands on her hips instead. "Could you manage not to find any more unique ways to destroy yourself until after we find this Hierarch? I don't really care to die alone." "Well, I'll try." It wasn't like Kai could make any promises right now.

But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.

TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.

They don't want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don't want facts to bother them.

as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.

I couldn't hack a combat bot without making a direct physical connection, and trying for that would result in me being torn apart. (I've been torn apart before, and on my list of things to avoid, it was right up there at the top.)

our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

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Moon didn't find any of this very encouraging

While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.

I'm using my own pain." Ziede's eyes narrowed. "It's not nearly as likely to destroy your consciousness and enslave you to the Hierarch's Well, but it's hardly an inexhaustible source." Kai huffed a laugh, though it wasn't funny. "Isn't it?" Ziede bit her lip and he could see she knew he was right. "You're taking all the fun out of killing a Hierarch's High Expositor and stealing his power, Kai.

When everything hurts too much, you want to get away from it but you can't, because it's inside you. So you do something drastic because you know it will change everything.

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

My skin was less even than hers and it gets completely regenerated on a regular basis due to me being shot in the face.

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —

In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.

Don't give up now. If God has brought you this far, He won't leave you. Will you try? Will you give Him a chance to take the fear away?