“Time doesn’t heal wounds to make you forget. Time leaves you with a scar to remind you of how you bled and how you survived.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It’s the hard days — the days that challenge you to your very core — that determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but how you survive.”— Sheryl Sandberg, news.berkeley.edu
“Buttercup: We'll never survive. Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.”— William Goldman, Westley, Cary Elwes, amazon.com
“Victims living in a household where there is narcissistic abuse are living in a torturous war zone, where all forms of power and control are used against them (intimidation; emotional, physical and mental abuse; isolation, economic abuse, sexual abuse, coercion etc.). The threat of abuse is always p…”— Christine Louis de Canonville, narcissisticbehavior.net
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“First things first. I hate to spoil the ending but you’re going to make it.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will kee…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.com