Quotes About Resilience

Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.

Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.

I had two choices. I could stand here and cry—or I could get mad. Guess which one I chose.

That which doesn't destroy us . . ." "Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, 'What's next?

We know," she whispered to him. "We who have been hurt, we know what evil looks like. We know you make us safe.

Change is hard.And it doesn't matter much whether it is change for good or ill. (Adam)

Survival is not a pretty business.

Adam leaned down to Paul. "That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life.

Action is the best cure for despair.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." I

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I

But I've learned that there are always terrible things, and sometimes it is very important to grasp what joy and beauty you can, whenever you can.

I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.

Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.

Dear God...Please don't let me end up in a wheelchair again. No broken bones would be a happy bonus, but I'm not expecting you to make up for my stupidity quite so completely...Whatever happens, you don't let that vampire make it out of here still moving. If he wins, it will be bad news. Any help you can give us will be appreciated. Amen.

Heartbreak can be like that, boy," said Zee heavily. "Healthy pain invites healing.

By the time a person was my age, they should know that life isn't fair and quit pretending that it ought to be.

You should quit worrying about him and start worrying about how you are going to deal with accepting the situation you got yourself into.

His self-control was aided by the short time it had to stay strong because, from somewhere out of sight, Asil called, "I've got another one up here for you techies. Está roto. What is it you said about the last one, Tag? Pretty borked. This one is pretty borked, too.

Katherine Briggs

But despair was not a synonym for sorrow or regret. Despair was the loss of hope.

He laughed as he bled down his shirt, and I babbled apologies. He let his head fall back against the truck door with a thump. "Leave off, Mercy. It'll close up quick enough on its own." I backed up until I was sitting beside him—half-laughing myself, because although it probably hurt quite a bit, he was right that his injury would heal in a few minutes. It was minor, and

But I know war. And every day I can hold it off is valuable to me, and to its victims.