Quotes About Survival

He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

This is about Ku'Sox, isn't it," I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. "Then you've met," he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. "Funny, you don't look dead." His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I'd been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. "I'm surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn't.

I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?

Trent was Cincinnati's most eligible bachelor, still single because of me. He'd thanked me for that in a weird moment of honesty when he thought we might die in a demon's prison cell. I was still wondering why I'd bothered to save his little elf butt. Misplaced responsibility, maybe? That I'd saved his life didn't seem to mean anything to him, since he had tried to make my skull one with a tombstone not three seconds after I got us safe.

Again Al touched me, but this time, his hand was gentle on my shoulder. "And if you're not, it's Ku'Sox. He knows you're too protected here, and you're a threat to him. He's summoning you. He's summoning you to where I can't follow. He's going to try to kill you!

Falling in love was the easiest thing in the world to do. Why was it always so hard for me to survive it?

Al had tried to kill me. Okay, he'd tried to kill me a couple of times, but this last time I think he'd really meant it.

Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive.

I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off.

I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen.

But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off." Behind

Harmony crab-walked back. "You're the only one left, Reed. You were right. It was a trap. Michael is a sadist. We leave now, or I'll shoot you on sight next time I see you as one of Bill's brainwashed dolls.

Harsh and savage. Survival. It was never beautiful, except for its pure honesty.

a gardener in a savage Eden

had my splat gun, but I wasn't a brave person. I ran away from big-bad-uglies. It increased my life span dramatically.

I had to start living again, even if it killed me.

Amid all this there's plenty of talk about saving the earth. I'll tell you, the earth has taken some hard hits in the past. It'll survive. What needs saving, I believe, is the human race and our ability to restrain ourselves, if we have such a thing. What needs saving is the rich tapestry of life around us that we take for granted. What needs saving—perhaps even found to begin with—is the intrinsic value of nature beyond any human utility.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

A mammal never forgets a bad scare; and they were mammals.

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

Kim Stanley Robinson