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Quotes About Resilience

I reached out and touched a tiny pink toe that peeked from Kaden's swaddling shirt. "He's beautiful," I said. "How are you feeling?" "Well enough," she answered, rolling her eyes, "considering I just paraded my lady parts to a killer barbarian." She sighed. "But I suppose, compared to what you've been through, it's a small indignity to bear.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I cry out and fall to my knees, unable to go on, weeping for the dead, weeping for the cruelties, and a whisper calls to me from far away, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. And I force myself to my feet again.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another
~ Mary E. Pearson
Zsu viktara. Stand strong.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away. When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed. Or maybe we became something new. Maybe we made it exist.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Sometimes we're all pushed to do things we thought we could never do
~ Mary E. Pearson
Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It may not seem like it now, but you´re stronger today than you were yesterday. Tomorrow, you´ll be even stronger.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We were Rahtan, we could chisel what made us uncomfortable and awkward into an ice sculpture in hell if we had to.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Her tears, they ride the wind. She calls to me, And all I can do is whisper, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. —The Last Testaments of Gaudrel
~ Mary E. Pearson
No one is too great to fall.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Another step, my sisters, My brothers, My love. The way is long, but we have each other. Another mile, Another tomorrow, The path is cruel, but we are strong.
~ Mary E. Pearson
But even the great can tremble with fear. Even the great can fall.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The world has changed. It's gotten better. It's gotten worse. After all these years, Jenna's words still echo is my head, 'just as one problem is solved, a new one is created.' The work never ends. If there's one thing you can always count on in this world, it is change. I don't fear it the way I used to. I try to be read for it. One day, maybe, all the changes will be only for the good. I can dare to dream. I can always hope for more.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was in the sorrows, in the fear, in the need, that the knowing gained flight, and I had much of all of these.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I started to stand, but Yvet stopped me and leaned forward to kiss my injured cheek, her little lips moist against my skin. "It won't hurt for long, Miz. Be brave." I swallowed, trying to answer without turning into a blathering fool. "I'll try, Yvet. I'll try to be as brave as you."
~ Mary E. Pearson
Maybe that's what makes you brave enough to face another.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We. Everything was we now. We wove our dreams together like armor. Nothing could stop us now.
~ Mary E. Pearson
If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.
~ Mary E. Pearson