Quotes About Growth

Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.

llium snorted. "I look like a damned duck." His words weren't far off the mark. The feathers that had grown over the injured section were soft, white, and delicately … fluffy. "I hope to hell these baby feathers fall off and get replaced by real ones. They will, won't they?" He sounded worried.

Some things need to be broken to become stronger.

Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn't enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself.

Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are.

When you suffer such a big hurt, the longer you permit it to live in you, the bigger it grows, until it seeks to devour your soul.

We can decide to remain in our isolated bunkers, becoming more and more obsessed with looking inward instead of outward, or we can decide to be great together. We can decide to stagnate, or we can decide to grow. We can decide to settle for the status quo, or we can decide to reach for the stars. "Choose.

But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

It had never occurred to her that she might adore the adult Clay even more than she had the youth, but there it was. The man her friend had grown into—well, he enchanted her, brooding temper, dark kisses, animal protectiveness, and all. To her delight, the feeling seemed to be mutual. But the separation had scarred them both. What would it do to Clay if this disease succeeded in killing her?

Vaughn, she realized, would never let her shortchange herself. He'd always demand that she be all the woman she could be, even if that woman promised to make life more difficult for him.

Don't worry. There's a manual—it began with information about intimate physical interaction, but now has a growing section on emotional connection and how to nurture it.

Damage meant nothing except that the person had lived life and taken a few knocks along the way.

Pero tú tienes una ventaja —susurró—. Ahora eres un poquito humano.

We're all a little broken. No one goes through life with a whole heart.

He was having a hard time with Aodhan so far out of reach, the two yet struggling to come to a balance in their relationship - Illium had become used to being the stronger one in the partnership, the one who looked after a badly traumatized Aodhan. But Aodhan was coming out of his shell, and the man he'd become wasn't the boy Illium remembered.

Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta. —¿De veras? —De veras. —Apoyó la frente en la de él con tierno afecto y le tomó el rostro entre las manos—. Has sido tú quien me ha enseñado que la vida no está grabada en piedra. Somos aquello en lo que nosotros mismos nos convertimos. Su fe en él le desgarraba, convirtiéndole en un hombre mejor.

So this book, while continuing the Psy-Changeling storyline—because nothing is ever static in this world—is also a walk through the interconnected lives of many of the characters who've become important to us over the past books and novellas. With

Such a mistake would've crushed me had I thought myself perfect and held myself up to some great standard of alphahood. Instead, I accepted that I can't see into the heart of every wolf, and I did all I could to fix the resulting damage.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.—Nimra, Angel of New Orleans

But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.