Quotes About Resilience

How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?

He's never asked about her depression in the past, just knew it was there like a big black blob over her head. In Year Eleven they thought it was a one-off because her mother had been sick, but he had seen it once or twice again. Francesca knew the signs and he could tell she fought it with everything she had inside of her.

Some days are worse than others, my love, some days better than most.

I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue.

It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.

Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories, Florenza of Nebia. Remember that, or you'll be vomiting for the rest of your life.

They think I saved them but they saved me. I didn't exist before I belonged to the Fucked-Up Four.

On Friday morning, when Eugenia leaves, Rosie bawls, trying to embrace her, but her grandmother isn't the type. The older woman just keeps on walking until she gets into the cab. It doesn't mean Eugenia feels less. Martha thinks it means that she feels more, but is worried about the dam that'll burst if she ever lets the emotion get the better of her.

Working with them was tough at first, because the Mackees were dealing with their own shit, and most times it was Jimmy who did the talking. Mackee's dad later wrote to say that Jimmy had filled in the silence for them, and it made all the difference

Di le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

Si le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment

The grief hits her hard one day. The way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so can the day before, and so can the week and fortnight before that, but then today comes and she's back to zero.

It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

It's what depression does to a person; it changes them completely.

No llores —le dijo ella con dureza, aunque las lágrimas le cubrían su propio rostro—. No llores, Finnikin, porque si empezamos a llorar, nuestras lágrimas no acabarán nunca.

Que no viera nunca los momentos de mi vida que han estado llenos de negligencia, miedo y repulsión, momentos a los que nunca podré volver, porque sé que me entorpecerán el resto de mi vida si me permito recordarlos un solo instante.

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.