Quotes About Determination

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious. "No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?" Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No." "But we're going anyway." "Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both," I say.

And she says, "Then let's just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven." I smile, a little. "You said effing ," I say. "You actually said the word effing .

You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd." He pushes Viola forward again - She calls out from the pain of it - Viola, I think - Viola - I grit my teeth and raise the rifle - I cock it - And I say what's true - "I would kill to save her," I say.

VIOLA Cuz she's here - She came - She came for me - And she calls my name - And I feel her strength coursing thru my Noise like a fire - And the Mayor staggers back like he's been punched in the face by a row of houses - "Ah, yes," he grunts, his hand to his head. "Your tower of strength has arrived." "Todd!" I hear her call again - And I take it and I use it - Cuz I can feel her there, riding to the end of the world to find me, to save me if I needed saving - Which I did -

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

Viola? Keep calling for me– And I'll keep searching for you– And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" "No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

TODD!" I shout again - And he looks at me - And I hear my name in his Noise - And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together - And we're gonna win -

Through Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both.

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes - And my feet stop running - But then I pick up one - And then the other - And I'm running for it again - I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done ," he says.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win -

You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.

go in swinging

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.

I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging