Quotes About Challenges

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter, or girlfriend, or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

A girl's life is the worst life in the world. A girl's life is: you are born, you bleed, you burn.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what an you do? You can't stop living.

Viel schwieriger ist es, aus einer Schublade herauszuwachsen, in die man gesteckt worden ist.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. (Truman Capote, In Cold Blood)

Every book I read and every movies I watched seems to give out the same message: high school is the worst experience you can ever have.

Extenuating Circumstances

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Had a million different tiny things happened. Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again.

But sometimes she felt the world wasn't built for people like her

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end

Dieu avait fait en sorte de rendre les adolescents insupportables pour que les parents se réjouissent lorsqu'ils quittent le nid familial.

La vie est un sursaut. Il faut s'adapter quoi qu'il arrive, non ?

Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision. You'll get somewhere whether you put any effort into it or not.

That's life. Things don't always work out.

Nothing is guaranteed.

Growing up with Steven and spending my summers with Jeremiah and Conrad, winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

In some ways, he was the same Jeremiah, but in other ways, I could see how this had changed him. Had aged him. Everything took more effort, his jokes, his smiles. Nothing was easy anymore.

There are moments in every girl's life, that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea. And then there are the moments that you know are big. That whatever you do next, there will be an impact. Your life could go in one of two directions, Do or die. This is one of those moments. Big. They didn't get much bigger than this.

It's the "too" that's the sticking point. The "too" is what stops me in my tracks. It sticks in my craw. Because if he hadn't said "too," it would be about me and him. Not about me and him and Margot.

You're teenagers. Life doesn't always work out the way you think it's going to work out...

something I've never managed to quite get the hang of.