Quotes About Persistence

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn't mean you've wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don't amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most

Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.

You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)

Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you're through. Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing left inside you but the past?

I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.

Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying, even when you're through, Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing inside you but the past.

They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Her heart, though broken, still beat.

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time.

Each time she sees it she is reminded of how some things are never over they stay with you until they are a part of you, like it or not

I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found. That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags at you.

If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about

Being a physician is like working on a machine that keeps breaking down, time after time.

Curses are like knots, the more you struggle to be free, the tighter they become, whether they're made of rope or spite or desperation.

I cure him every time. That is the only way to treat this disease. Some things return no matter what, and we must deal with it when it does.