From a Book I Once Read

A meaningful quote from a book I finished yesterday...

Audrey turned to go, but Mrs. Leacock suddenly had something else to say. "Do you know what resilience means?" she said, and without waiting for an answer went on, in a reciting voice: "The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused most especially by compressive stress." She made a small, unhappy smile. "For years I kept that definition pinned on my refrigerator. The point is, we're all crushed at some time or other. It's true that some of us never recover our size and shape, but" - this time the smile seemed actually hopeful - "most of us do."

-- Crushed by Laura and Tom McNeal