“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”— Linda Sue Park, amazon.com
“Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, amazon.com
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.”— John Connolly, amazon.com
“I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“First things first. I hate to spoil the ending but you’re going to make it.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“the good news is I survived knowing you. the bad news is you were something I had to survive.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“What I felt is not uncommon among victims of rape or abuse. Rape is such a violation; the feeling of worthlessness is almost universal. It wasn’t my fault. But I was broken. No one would want me anymore.”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“I wanted to be a part of the fearless storm, to be one with it, to refuse to see myself as its passive victim or its naive, romantic worshipper falling down on my knees in a humility I didn’t possess. I wanted to be a part of the order and the chaos, the violence and the raging waters.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, narrativemagazine.com
“Storms and wars were always beginning and always ending, and we lived our lives in the aftermath. There must’ve already been some kind of body count. What was it about us that we measured our catastrophes in bodies? Maybe it consoled those of us who survived.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, narrativemagazine.com