Quotes About Resilience

The reason I don't worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I'll take those odds every f*cking day.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it.

Handicapped with my own melancholy

She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking.

And if you sat at the dinner table long enough, whether in punishment or in refusal or simply in boredom, you never stopped sitting there. Some part of you sat there all your life.

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

The dream of a novel was more resilient than other kinds of dreaming. It could be interrupted in mid-sentence and snapped back into later.

He didn't understand what happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached, and worn out along the fold lines.

I suspect that art has always had a particularly tenuous purchase on the American imagination because ours is a country to which so few terrible things have ever happened.

Gary si augurava che ogni ulteriore migrazione verso le coste venisse proibita, e tutti gli abitanti del Midwest fossero incoraggiati a tornare ai cibi pesanti, agli abiti fuori moda e ai giochi di società, in modo da mantenere una riserva nazionale strategica di idiozia

Evil had pursued her all her life, and now the world was exploding with the color of it, and nowhere was there refuge.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

Why I'm dolling myself up like this…" "You're putting on armor. You want to be strong.

How like a mental illness a nation's economy was!

It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.

Watching him fall down and pick himself back up, Perry mourned no longer being small enough that falling didn't hurt. He no longer even remembered how it felt to have the ground so unthreateningly proximate. Why had he been in such a hurry to grow up? It was as if he'd never experienced the grace of childhood.

What's it do?" she said. "Absolutely nothing," Hibbard replied, "if you are in perfect mental health. However, let's face it, who is?