Survived Quotes - Page 7

• A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Looks, Littles

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• Yes, but . . .” She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. “I survived because I fell in love.” With you was unspoken.

  Kim Harrison

  Love You, I Fell In Love With You, Unspoken

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• Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Twenties, Three, Embodiment

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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• [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. 

  Jack London

  Children, Taken, Mean

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• What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Fear, Drinking, Blood

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

  Guillaume Musso

  Love, Block, Years

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• He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Would Be, Okay

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• My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Pain, Past

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• Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Eye, Discovery

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• I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

  Halle Berry

  Feelings, Trying, Hardship

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• I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

  Michael Rooker

  Needs, Apocalypse

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• This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've survived so many years and I can go and I can fall down and I can get back up. Why? Because I know why I'm here. That's the question that a lot of people need to answer when they do fall is, 'Why am I here?' If you can answer that question, you'll be able to dust yourself off and shine like a phoenix out of ashes.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Crazy, Party

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• And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Teacher, Lying, Miracle

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• Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

  Zadie Smith

  Order, Said, Difficult

  Zadie Smith (2003). “The Autograph Man: A Novel”, p.329, Vintage

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

  Michelle Sagara

  Reacting, Stills, Fairs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.931, MIRA

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• Nothing could have survived our life.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Our Lives

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

  Paulo Coelho

  Battle, Might, Lost

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• Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Should, Ought

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, July

  "The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the Un General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You’re inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They’d probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Glowing, Guy

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

  David Levithan

  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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