Quotes About Determination

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats.

Because Oliver wants you, and what Oliver wants, Oliver gets, right? So get your sweet little butt up already." "Hey," Shane said, and stood up. "I'm not telling you again, Jase. Stop." "What, because I said she had a sweet little butt? You don't think she does? Hard to believe, since you spend so much time staring at it.

Jess. Khalila drew his gaze back to her. What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Worried about me? Brendan snorted, Hell freezes and the devil skates before that happens. You can survive anything.

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

You know it's desperate, she said. Shane is going to the library.

Let me find the strength to do this, he said. And let me be strong enough to protect them from what's coming.

Over my- I was going to say, 'over my dead body,' but- - michael

Rachel Caine

Anything worthwhile is worth fighting for,' Claire said. 'Not always with guns and stuff. But with … taking a stand. Right?

The trick to doing the impossible, I've found, is to simply never think past what is at your fingertips. Do the thing in front of you. Then the next. Then the next. In such ways have men built the pyramids, or climbed mountains, or raced to the moon on rockets.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

I don't know if she has any choice.' 'There's always a choice.'... 'Unless your choice is to lie down and die.

I'll rest when I'm dead.

This is what you wanted, I tell myself. You wanted Melvin to come for you. Now you just have to live long enough to be useful to your kids. Stay alive. I can't depend on Sam now. I can't depend on anyone but myself. All my life has been coming to this.

I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right?

I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.

What do you want ? It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama. That's a problem for the Daphnes of the world. Daphne, you bitch, you can't even drive the damn van.

No. I can't change. I shouldn't change.

He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.

I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.