Quotes About Resilience

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

Change is neither good nor bad. It's just change. Frightening, but survivable.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'" She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd know the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

I need you to survive , he answered me without speaking, without looking at me. I need to know you survive.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Illegitimis nil carborundum.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Adam decided that since I was going to keep getting into trouble, the only thing he could so was try to ensure I could get myself out of it, too.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.

It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

if I had to crawl to do so. I would have walked through Hell to get back to you, and only failed because of the weakness of my body, not of my heart.

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger...

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.

Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

I might be dumb," I told him, putting my nose against his silk tie, "but I'm not that dumb. I've gotcha now and you aren't getting away.