Quotes About Survival

Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes." I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them.

Vaya a buscar lo que le he pedido -dije mirándolo a los ojos-. Y también un odre de agua. O quemaré esta posada con usted dentro y bailaré entre las cenizas y entre sus chamuscados y pegajosos huesos.

Llevaba la pobreza colgada del cuello como una piedra.

Blackened body of God" Sim said,using stronger language than I'd ever heard from him before' "Kvothe,you're alive.

Una llamada de ayuda atrae a los depredadores como el olor de la sangre transportado por el viento.

She felt flat and scraped as an old hide. Dry as paper written on both sides.

No podías nadar contra la corriente ni cambiar la dirección del viento. ¿Y si había tormenta? Pues tenías que atrancar las escotillas y achicar, y no soltar las jarcias.

He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

Quizá todo esto les parezca macabro, pero así es la vida: los saqueadores acaban siendo saqueados y el tiempo nos hace mercenarios a todos.

What more can you expect?" she asked him quietly. "From men who live with demons for their neighbors? Even the best dog will bite that has been kicked enough.

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno.

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

Así es la vida. Los saqueadores acaban siendo saqueados, y el tiempo nos hace mercenarios a todos.

I HAD BEEN IN Tarbean for years at this point. Three birthdays had slipped by unnoticed and I was just past fifteen.

She knew the way of things. She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and wine. . . .

Cuando vives en la calle, o desarrollas una sensibilidad especial para detectar ciertas cosas, o tu vida está condenada a ser breve y desgraciada.

It's not the first time I should be dead, Bast. I'm a fair hand at avoiding it.

The old man was going from nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head and no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.

y en algunos sitios era tal la desesperación que las madres ya no lograban reunir suficiente esperanza para ponerles nombres a sus hijos.

Siempre había creído que era del mundo en general de lo que tenia que apartarse, pero ahora lo veía claro no se trataba del mundo, si no de los seres humanos. Al parecer, en el mundo, en el mundo sin hombres, la vida era soportable

Kaip patyr?s laivo katastrof? ir savai?i? savait?m pl?duriav?s vendeny nelaim?lis ektaziškai sveikina pirm? žmoni? gyvenam? sal?, taip Grenujis švent? savo atvykim? ant vienatv?s kalno.

Era fuerte como una bacteria resistente, y frugal como la garrapata, que se inmoviliza en un árbol y vive de una minúscula gota de sangre que chupó años atrás.

Few worlds tend to have more than one sentient race. At some point in their history, worlds with more than one smart species have the tendency to do dumb things like try to wipe out their competition. I'm told that's why there are no Neanderthals left on Earth and the dragons left for space.