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Quotes About Challenges

I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on." Alabaster studied Emily. "I think it is your glasses. They are far too small for your face. You should go see the optometrist.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Life was expensive anywhere you were.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with. But that's also made them kind of, well, humorless.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My class talks a lot about their traumas. And how their traumas inform their games. They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It begins to seem to me that life is little more than a series of losses, and as you must know by now, I hate losing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I am so tired of your crap. Do you honestly think you suffer more than everyone else? Do you think you suffer more than I do? Do you think you're the first person to ever have a baby? Or lose someone? Do you think you're some goddamned pioneer when it comes to grief?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What can a single man know about child rearing?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You are willing to work hard, but you want something with flexible hours. You have a baby on the way. Also, you're sick of bosses. You want to be your own boss, but you don't have much money to start a business.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We had both heard worse. People were often the worst versions of themselves in the months leading up to a wedding. Occasionally, though, the worst version of someone was the actual version of someone, but it was difficult to know if one was in that situation until after the fact.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Lei vuole morire? Perchè, se vuole morire, posso metterla sotto osservazione psichiatrica. >> << Non voglio morire>>, mormora A.J. dopo un pò. << Trovo semplicemente difficile essere sempre qui. Crede che sia pazzo? >>
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What is so great about the times?" A.J. has often reflected that, bit by bit, all the best things in the world are being carved away like fat from meat. First, it had been the record stores, and then the video stores, and then newspapers and magazines, and now even the big chain bookstores were disappearing everywhere you looked. From his point of view, the only thing worse than a world with big chain bookstores was a world with NO big chain bookstores.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Twenty years ago, when she first started doing Survivor Day, it was easy, she says, but now, who's left? Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life'll get you every time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She's worse than a puppy. And a man like me shouldn't even have a puppy. She's not potty-trained, and I have no idea how to do that kind of thing or any of the related matters either. Plus, I've never really liked babies. I like Maya, but . . . Conversation with her lacks to say the least. We talk about Elmo, and I can't stand him, by the way, but other than that, it's mainly about her. She's totally self-centered.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The struggle was hard-won, especially when the worst demons in the room were mine.
~ Gail Caldwell
When public schools first began opening to girls, the curriculum was mainly based on memorization and beatings.
~ Gail Collins
It's hard to imagine how women made the leap into professions for which they had no role models, no invitation, and very little encouragement.
~ Gail Collins
Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)
~ Gail Giles