Quotes About Persistence

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arduous, but the worst came first. The road was rough.

The car kept on coming. The train kept on coming. Vectoring in. Collision course.

Always," Bellantonio

previously discussed

She crawled on. She wanted to get closer. She knew the numbers. A thirty-round magazine would be gone in two seconds. She wanted to make both of them count. She wanted to get lucky. If she hit one and he hit one, that was two less for later. Which was good.

Waiting is a skill, just like everything else. ~Jack Reacher

He always had been.

saying it was

Morir en el intento

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

10. El camino difícil

They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.

would take at least another hour for

We'll find you,' Emerson said. 'You won't,' Reacher said. 'Nobody ever has before.' Then

From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1

It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere.

was working the cold up

When a person is gripped by a fugue or idea you can't just busy him out of it, not for long anyway.

I will get it done this week barring any big obstacles" shows you have more assurance in your abilities.

I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

which had been

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again