She Survived Quotes

#1. What about ... Cinder?" There was a hesitation, and she could tell they were doubtful about the name. She lifted her chin and explained, "It's an unassuming name, but also ... powerful. Because of where she came from. She survived that fire. She was reborn from the cinders." They

Marissa Meyer

#2. Strangely, she still felt no fear. She thought if she survived this, she would never feel fear again.

Robert Jordan

#3. She survived whatever happened;
she forgave; she became.

W. H. Auden

#4. The girl I am now, this girl
she survived.
I just needed a little help getting here.

Donna Freitas

#5. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.

Edward Gibbon

#6. I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Marilu Henner

#7. If she survived, she'd learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though.

Evan Currie

#8. I watched my beautiful sister running ... and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

Alice Sebold

#9. She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: I survived. Isn't that what matters?

Melissa Marr

#10. His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone.

Aline Ohanesian

#11. She died.i survived
because i survived.i die everyday.

Ravinder Singh

#12. She'd survived Endovier, yet she could still laugh.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.

Salman Rushdie

#14. Then I'll say that I once cut the living, beating heart out of my own chest," she said, her voice devoid of its usual flippancy. "I survived that amputation. I'll survive this one.

Tiffany Reisz

#15. The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

Ayn Rand

#16. And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased. She was power.

Michael Walterich

#17. When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Maya Angelou

#18. Obituary: He/she is survived by his/her Want-to-Read/Currently-Reading Goodreads shelf

Brian Alan Ellis

#19. one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared. She

Genevieve Cogman

#20. She didn't give in to pity. That woman - girl, really - had survived a monster intent on destroying everything she was. She deserved a fucking medal for courage, not pity.

Nalini Singh

#21. but what didn't sit right with me was the fact that Marshae survived. She was still being hospitalized and was in a coma.

Diamond Johnson

#22. Are you?"
"What?"
"Venomous?"
Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see."
"Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela.

Nalini Singh

#23. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful.

Louise Erdrich

#24. She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route.
Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

J.D. Robb

#25. If this is death, Guild Hunter, then I will see you on the other side." He'd said that to her as she lay dying in his arms. Now, she whispered, "Wherever you go, I'll follow." She'd lost too many people she loved, survived too much death.

Nalini Singh

#26. She has survived but she doesnt know what.

Gwen Calvo

#27. I thought of that merry face, the flippant laughter, the female that did not care who approved. Perhaps because she had seen the ugliest her kind had to offer. And had survived.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

William Graham Sumner

#29. The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there.

Dave Eggers

#30. She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

Anne Cameron

#31. She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)

Tim Willocks

#32. As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

Kelis

#33. Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

Alice Hoffman

#34. A woman who's survived all you've survived doesn't cry. She holds her head up and dares the world around her to fuck with her.

Maya Banks

#35. She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.

William R. Forstchen

#36. She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.

Sara Alexi

#37. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.

Dianne Sylvan

#38. It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

Fannie Flagg

#39. Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love."
With you was unspoken.

Kim Harrison

#40. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

#41. Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.

Claudia Gray

#42. I have lived through worse, she thought, and she said it aloud, bit through the words: "I've survived worse than you."

"You have," Raine gasped, and he made to roll her again.

Kameron Hurley

#43. It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.

Ian McEwan

#44. TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Christopher Meloni

#45. She very nearly reached for his hand, but curled her fingers into a fist instead. He wouldn't appreciate her pity, and how did you pity a man who'd survived hell? You didn't pity him. You admired him.

Maya Banks

#46. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.

Christopher Paolini

#47. Finally I said, my words soft, "How did you get so wise, Effie?" "I've survived seventy-seven years on this planet," she answered wryly, "and by making the right choices I even managed to live for most of them.

Samantha Young

#48. The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

Steve Earle

#49. I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

Ted Olson

#50. Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but what she was. She had crawled through darkness and blood and despair-she had survived.

Sarah J. Maas

#51. She'd barely survived him the first time. Playing emotional roulette with him now was dangerous. Even if it felt damn good to be in his arms again.

Catherine Bybee

#52. She felt no relief at having survived this attack. No heady satisfaction surged through her because she'd made it to shore. She felt only a growing emptiness. A gathering dark. For this was her life now. Not boredom and lectures, but hell-flames and assassins. Massacres and endless flight.

Susan Dennard

#53. We fight." She shook her head and the tears continued to fall. "And when we can't fight, we learn to turn to others who've learned life's lessons. Who've survived. Who'll gather close and help us make it through.

Kristen Ashley

#54. As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now she was going to be better than ever before.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#55. Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian!

Garth Nix

#56. No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

J.R. Ward

#57. Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly.

Guillermo Del Toro

#58. Liv had made it to Dragon Con. She had people to stay with and money in her pocket. Now all she needed to do was meet Spartan and she could die happy.

Danika Stone

#59. I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#60. She'd survived the outside. She'd survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let go. Whatever came next, she would survive it, too

Veronica Rossi

#61. She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."
He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.

Erin Kellison

#62. My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

Tyson Fury

#63. Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius.
But she wanted him.
That made all the difference in the end.

Donna Grant

#64. I'm 23 right now and I feel like I'm still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I'll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she's survived her teenage years and early twenties.

Chanel Iman

#65. She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

G.K. Chesterton

#66. What she doesn't realize is that I have survived for her as well -- and only now am I beginning to survive for myself.

Dani Shapiro

#67. Don't, she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

Vivian Vande Velde

#68. 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