Quotes About Resilience

You're the best of us." A potent statement. "The best. The strongest, the smartest, and the one with a heart stubborn enough that it resisted Silence and cared for the most damaged among us.

This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the "sneaky like a cat" program. Today

Bullies never did well when they no longer had the upper hand

Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she'd said, "I won't run anymore. I won't try to leave. I've decided to stay and protect you." "Why?" Midnight black eyes afire in a sun-browned face that was all sharp bones. "Because you don't have a monster inside you.

Yes, she's coming home for a visit. No, I will not give you a free pass. You put one finger on her, I'll beat you to a pulp." Tai snarled low in his throat, his wide shoulders going stiff as he fisted his hands. "Yeah, well, maybe I'll beat you back." Face thunderous, he stalked off as she fought her smile. Hmm, perhaps Judd's young protégé had potential. None of the others had dared stand up to her.

Aden, I'm not fixed, she said, the words holding despair. You were never broken. There's nothing to fix.

Vasic said the words on Aden's tongue. "The Arrows expect mercy from no one.

But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

Just because a person was broken didn't mean they had no value, no right to live.

He was me and I was him and we were whole together. Now . . . now I'm in pieces, but Persephone is whole and for her, I'll endure." Miane

But the one thing she no longer had any question about was that they were an impregnable unit. The world might attempt to tear them apart, but the only way it would ever succeed would be through death.

A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago.

Never again, he thought, would he be alone in the dark.

Trouble's not only my middle name, it's my first and last, too.

We cannot forget joy. No matter how deep our rage and pain.

His Starlight should've been in bed, resting. Instead, she was here, fighting to clean up a mess of violence, fighting to save lives. Because she was Silver Fucking Mercant, and she was as tough as any bear in StoneWater. Including its alpha.

She gave a frustrated little cry. "Everyone thinks I should be wrapped up in cotton wool and babied-when I'm not being pitied, that is! But I'm no tame housecat. I never have been. What was done to me didn't alter that. I'm attracted to Judd's strength-give me a nice gentle puppy dog of a man and I'd drive him to tears within the hour.

Only the stupid regret choices. The smart learn to adapt.

Tell me about him... please.

I had a five-year plan once. It was a good one, too. Then life happened. —Unknown street philosopher

When you're broken," she whispered to the man who would save the world for her, "you can't see hope. We must be their hope.

Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.

If I lose him, I'll break." His mind touched hers. You can't break, Ivy. You're the only home my Arrows know—no matter what, that home must survive.

Mis amantes siempre han sido mujeres guerreras. La fuerza me intriga.