Quotes About Resilience

Fear is a big waste of time.

Stories are light, light is precious in a world so dark.

Let her have her dangerous will.

What matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks up.

It was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.

He said, 'I forgive you, Pa. And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

It is all gone , though Peter. All of it is gone! And there is no way to get it back. 'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently. Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face. And then he ate.

Louisiana stood up again. She was holding Bunny close to her chest. She faced forward. 'Go faster,' she said. 'Are you kidding?' said Beverly. 'Who do you think you are? Some kind of queen? We're pushing as hard as we can. This grocery cart is worthless. It's like the wheels aren't even wheels. It's like they're squares or something.

Kate DiCamillo

And perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.

But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn

Kate DiCamillo

I have never known a mouse who has made it out of the dungeon only to go back into it again. Goodbye, friend. Goodbye, mouse among mice.

tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be. When I told Gloria Dump about Otis and how he got arrested, she laughed so hard she had to grab hold of her false teeth so they wouldn't fall out of her mouth.

Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees. But then she would remember that she had a plan.

It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or, if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux felt a very intense pain in his hindquarters.

A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned

Who was I without the Flying Elefantes? Who was I without Granny? And who was I without a curse upon my head?

What we got, all we got, is each other. And we got to learn to make do with that.

Kate DiCamillo

Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her.