Quotes about Adversity

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.

Fate is what you make of it. You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you.

life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.

Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

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.

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.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.