Quotes About Survival

Flowers in the Attic

Karin Slaughter

I didn't know how to be with a man who wanted to be with me." The softness had drained away. "I was addicted to Kenny's uncertainty, that niggling little doubt in my gut that made me wonder if I could survive without him. I thought I could fix the pain inside of him. It took me a long time to realize that the pain was inside of me.

He said, "What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

The handful of swamps left in America were probably some of the few remaining places on the continent where a man could live wholly sustained by the land, whether it was for food, shelter, medicine, or some of the cleanest drinking water on earth. Jeffrey wondered how long it would be before they were all completely destroyed.

Press evenly," the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

Claire knew full well from the videos that there were things a man could do to a woman that didn't kill her, but made her wish she was dead.

the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Claire

sick of floating between disaster points like an amoeba inside a petri dish.

Just about every gang in America had started as a group of minorities, be they Irish, Jewish, Italian, or other, banding together for survival. It generally took a couple of years before they started doing worse than was done to them.

Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That's how we get trees." "Does now seem like an appropriate time for a nut metaphor?

Kids like that didn't live the lives they wanted. They survived the lives they had.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

change is the healthiest way to survive

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

Le coût de production de l'ouvrier se réduit à peu près aux moyens d'entretien dont il a besoin pour vivre et propager sa race.

Le prix moyen du travail salarié est le minimum du salaire, c'est-à-dire la somme des moyens d'existence dont l'ouvrier a besoin pour vivre en ouvrier. Par conséquent, ce que l'ouvrier s'approprie par son activité est tout juste ce qui lui est nécessaire pour entretenir une maigre existence, et pour se reproduire.

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

Undoubtedly," it will be said, "religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.

I must be so lucky, as I'd been using the boiler without the plastic ring for ages and me and Suzanne are still alive (I wish there was a sarcasm font).

Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.

There was no place to hide from a creature who stalked the edges of death itself.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.