“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.”— Thomas E. Sniegoski, amazon.com
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.”— Shannon Hale, amazon.com
“Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com