Quotes About Perseverance

Everyone's bad at relationships until you find the relationship worth fighting for.

I suppose your wife cannot be convinced to cancel it." Elliot let himself smile. "My wife is very determined." From the water, Ian laughed. It was a warm laugh, though he didn't look up from his line. "My Beth is like that." The fondness in his voice could not be clearer.

Are you up to the walk?" Sean asked, handing Liam his clothes. Liam hugged his T-shirt and jeans to his chest and looked around at the assembly, a hint of the old glint in his eye. "Are you telling me that none of you thought to bring wheels?" "No," Connor said. "As soon as the storm let up, we ran out here." "What, you were thinking you'd trundle me back in a wheelbarrow, all hurt and bloody? This is the planning of my friends and family.

You know the saying: a hard man is good to find.

Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

It was easier to be the victim, but it didn't feel so great.

I'm taking it day by day." I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.

If you're going to do it, do it.

But even if that were true, I was working hard. I didn't know how not to.

Where I belong is here, because that's where we all are, fighting our hard battles for the same thing.

Mostly, I hope for snow in winter and the fortitude to bear it. — Jennifer Chang, from "The Strangers", Some Say the Lark . (?Alice James Books; 1st edition (October 10, 2017)

The union of their shared lives could be a masterpiece, even if the colors of one piece clashed with another, even if uneven stitches showed, even if, from time to time, they had to pick out seams, realign the pieces, and sew them back together again. It would not be perfect, but it could be beautiful, if they worked together and persevered.

Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope

My cousin Richard always says that everyone has two marriages, but the lucky ones get to have them both with the same person.

I think you're permanently disqualified from the lucky category after four miscarriages, a virtual divorce, and a face that could scare small children.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

They cut away pieces of me," she whispered in the darkness. "But I handed them the knife.