Quotes about Resilience

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.

Never be without thread," she told the girl. "What is broken can also be mended. Remember that in your dark days, as I have.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?