Quotes about Adversity

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

Hard times make for simple minds.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

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.