to survive Quotes

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent’s yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realizes there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive.

“During a particularly harsh winter the bears find themselves without food, and then decide to invade the Grand Duchy of Sicily to survive.”

“And then I couldn’t hear them anymore. I uncocked the pistol and put it back in my pocket, first wrapping it in my handkerchief to keep it clean. I drank a little water from the bottle and switched on the flashlight. It had a strong beam. I switched it off again. I would need it at night and mustn’t waste the batteries.”

“They camp in some caves that have been fitted out as stables. With the help of Peter they manage to survive and stay hidden while planning their escape.”

“Emergency Two- Attack by an Unfriendly Lion. Lion attack, Ezzie claimed, was an everyday occurrence in the jungle. What you had to do to survive was wait until the last moment, until the lion was upon you, and then you had to ram your arm all the way down the lion’s throat.”

“No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today. Be proud of the way you fought to save yourself. Be proud of the way you survived.”

“I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”

“Standing alone in that damp, dark garage, I knew, for the first time, that I could survive.”

Danny survives the bombing and rejoins what is left of his family to face the struggles of life after the bombing. The book is full of awful scenes---the dead who died from the bombing, the dead who slowly die after the bombing, shooting those who have food, and much more.

“They drove under stars on a winding route that crossed and re-crossed the river. Farm hamlets lay black in sleep; copses of pine shaped the skyline. And always, against the drone of the van’s engine as it laboured through the gears, came the roar of the Maipo, amplified by the walls of the canyon.”

“I think this one is called The Big Bang Theory. It’s all been worked out by brilliant scientists. Well, we survived the last one. It’ll take more than a few bombs to get me down.”

‘If you mean that - but of course you don’t - you are greatly mistaken,’ said Grinny. ‘We will need a great number of things in a very short space of time if we are to survive in your planet. Our own resources will be quite inadequate.”

“He has too much to lose; he has to survive.”