Quotes About Survival

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.

That swipe had more in common with a bear's attack than a timber wolf's. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.

I'll get some more firewood," I said, turning away from the fire. "What we have won't last the night." "Best do that, I think," Kith said. "Wandel and I'll see about dinner." "I thought the woman should do the cooking," said Wandel, teasing but still half-serious. He hadn't eaten what I could cook over an open fire. "We'll cook," replied Kith, who had.

Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.

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

It is difficult for a chicken to make an alliance with a fox--you never know when you'll be eaten for breakfast.

Try to look unimportant, Sarge; maybe they'll be low on ammo." "Too late," Adam said with an involuntary grin. He hadn't heard that phrase since 'Nam, when officers were favorite targets of the enemy.

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

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

Don't mourn us until we're dead. ~ Samuel

Interesting, thought Brother Wolf, seeing wounded prey. An easy meal.

Werewolves don't do well on their own. They need someone, pack or family, or they begin to get odd. Werewolves who get odd tend to end up dead -- and sometimes take a lot of other people down with them when they go.

I have noticed that people who listen to their instincts live longer.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Stockholm Syndrome is what it is called when you begin to identify with your captors…. They get nicer every day that they don't kill you.

If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd it is that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.