Sandi Aldridge

“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”
― Candice Proctor, Night in Eden

“We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth around us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

“Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.”
― Doug Dillon