Quotes About Resilience

There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.

Why did a strong woman need to be her own shield

How are any of us in this room supposed to care about anything, when we're constantly being pulled back by unbearable thoughts and feelings?

I must have no pride whatsoever that I put up with your coldness

Now they were gathering because the world was unbearable, and they themselves were not.

Girls weren't weak. They had a softness sometimes, but not all the time.

He crashed quietly through the world.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it towards you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just pain.

I hadn't known that if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change. It's big, and it's always incredibly messy. But there's no way around the mess.

It seemed so unlikely, but then again, so did many things in life.

You're all equipped for the world, for adulthood, in a way that most people aren't," she continues. "So many people don't even know what hits them when they grow up. They feel clobbered over the head the minute the first thing goes wrong, and they spend the rest of their lives trying to avoid pain at all costs. But you all know that avoiding pain is impossible. And I think having that knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

You get used to whatever you get.

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

She was bitter and difficult, a once-good-looking woman who had gotten a little too heavy and shouldered too much resentment to attract many people anymore, and yet Professor Castleman was taken with her. Maybe he was repelled by her, too, but still he was attracted. She was gifted; her gifts were strange and discomforting and sort of male.

Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.

That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix.

Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder.    The

Women have to live so much of their life in the in-betweens.

you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

Bad things happen and then they're over, but where do they go?

That's what people never understand: They see us hard little pretty things, brightly lacquered and sequin-studded, and they laugh, they mock, they arouse themselves. They miss everything. You see, these glitters and sparkle dusts and magicks? It's war paint, it's feathers and claws, it's blood sacrifice.

Remember this," she says, glowing, her skin golden and life-marked, "you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.