Quotes About Challenges

weddings were just a screwup waiting to happen.

Living is hard and judging is easy.

EveLynn is on the autism spectrum, a person with Asperger's Syndrome, she's not good with customers.

I often wonder why women have careers,' said Shredded Napkin suddenly, showing his teeth. I don't think he can possibly be saying what I think he's saying. He isn't, of course. Never mind. I'll stand this because Reality is dishing it out and I suppose I ought to learn to adjust to it. Besides, he may be sincere. There is a human being in there. At least he isn't telling me about something he read in the paper on women's liberation and then laughing at it.

Everyone knows that much as women want to be scientists and engineers, they want foremost to be womanly companions to men (what?)

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the as­sumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time.

Now you're whining because of a broken hand? I thought you were hardcore and shit, but you're just a little girl with a badge.

Adulting was bullshit.

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Wound make you deeper and bigger. The bigger the challenges you face, the bigger and deeper your soul gets.

Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating—nothing worked. I'm starting to think there's an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.

From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

Life is a series of things we would rather not do.

When God means to punish a man He sends him stupid friends and clever enemies.

But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.

Aye, well, we all play the cards we're dealt." "Some of us do. Some of us kill men with better cards and play theirs instead.

Love is a strange animal. You can't always tame it and make it behave the way you want it to. For years, I thought I could. I thought I could use love the way I used lipstick and perfume. Just to get what I wanted. But real love isn't that way. Real love bangs you around and makes you do things you never thought you would do.