Quotes about Resilience

Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose.

Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that's happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you're safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn't waste time crying before.

Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.

I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?