Resilience Quote by Brandon Shire

“In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink, he knows…

— Jo Baker

“His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was…

— Mitch Albom

“Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss,…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes…

— Ian McEwan

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge…

— Roland Merullo

“This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart like some fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but…

— Philip Roth

“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over. I was…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the…

— craig stone

“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.”

— Joel T. McGrath

“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had to become,…

— Louise Erdrich

“And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls”

— Ingrid Michaelson