Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

A gentleman can live through anything.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

I've had to be tough my whole life.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

I have the strength to endure it all.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.