Quotes About Challenge

We cannot rest within those walls, we have to struggle past them.

You know sometimes you go into something thinking you're going to make all the difference. You're going to save the situation. Make it right. But that was too much for me.

I've lost this sentence, I can't even finish it, don't know how—

When it is a matter of nature, we rarely find ourselves on familiar ground. At every step, there is something that humiliates and mortifies proud minds

This is not fun. This isn't fair.

For as we know, there cannot be an escape.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.

because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

Él era el chalado que se había pintado de negro y había desafiado al mundo. Ella la ladrona de libros, sin palabras.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the beginning that you're going to win. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.

They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you.

He was caught somewhere, in the current--of destroying everything he had, to become all he needed to be

He odiado las palabras y las he amado, y espero haber estado a su altura..

I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.

Mi única preocupación es que cada vez que he deseado que algo suceda de una manera, ocurre del modo contrario, como si todo estuviera perfectamente diseñado para enfrentarme a lo desconocido.

I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

Have me, they said, and there was no stopping them. They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you. There was nothing I could do. They had too many ways, they were too resourceful - and when they did it too well, whatever their chosen method, I was in no position to refuse.