Quotes About Perseverance

God, Con. The way he talked about you—I'm surprised you didn't go stark-raving bonkers in public sooner. But then I guess we both know which one of you was stronger.

Walter, when the fucking trousers are dry, if you give me a fucking needle and thread, I will fucking sew the hell out of them.

But whether you're fixed or broke I need you to come back Just promise me no matter what You'll still be coming back I'll put together all your pieces If only you come back.

Some people got family, and those people I can get behind. But none of us—not you, or me, or hell, Kaden, who's the best man I know—can go out and change the fucking world without a lot of pain and suffering. So it's okay that's not how this started. What matters is that you ended it.

the trips to rehab—but… but if I left, maybe he'd find a way without me. Because staying wasn't doing him any good.

yelling, snarling, Russian-bear fight about your fucking job and how much I want you to quit. Be prepared. It will not break us up, and I am not drawing a line in the sand, and I am not going to push you away, but I will be heard, do you understand me?

He wants to keep me happy and he wants to keep me fed, he makes sure that I've got blankets and a place to sleep in a bed, but the music in my heart is like a freight train. It goes and it goes and when I stop it, it's like pain, but my brother doesn't see it doesn't hear it doesn't feel it, and all there is to do is shove him out of the way. Don't want to hit my brother with the freight train.

You don't understand. I once worked double shifts at a 7-Eleven so we could give our oldest a toy truck and a pair of pajamas when he was a baby. We can buy our kids presents and not worry about what we're gonna eat for two months. Wow. Oh my God!

My father taught me to judge and judge hard and judge mean. And I learned that lesson so well, I judged myself right into a fucking corner." "And then what?" Lance asked. "I gnawed off my own leg to get out of it." Henry let out a broken laugh.

If he'd grown up in Death Valley, he figured driving an ambulance in Kuwait wouldn't feel like the seventh sphincter of the armpit demon living in hell's tenth colon.

It's like we made promises last night, and you're not sure you can keep them." "Yeah," Carson confessed, his lips brushing Dale's chest. Dale pulled him tight against his chest and dropped a kiss on his hair. "Don't be scared, baby. We'll find a way. I'm not a fan of letting go.

Amal regarded him with that steady adult expression, the new one that had come after the former administration had destroyed everybody's innocence and COVID had taken their hope. "Just tell me where to apply," he said.

They stood back the Friday after Christmas and looked it over, both of them sweaty and filthy and really, really glad that they could turn the water back on after the incident with the water main when they were replacing the toilet. "We did good,

But maybe cotton candy dreams show a person where the bones of real dreams may lie. Maybe if they had steel in their hearts and spines, they could build a skyscraper out of dreams and put that steel in the girders and the clear glass of vision in the windows, and the bedrock of their faith in the foundation.

love working out," Ethan said sincerely. "I mean, at first I did it because, well, I was hanging out with the kids who got the crap beat out of them most of the time. But now? Man, just… just having that much power over your body? It's priceless. The whole world can be falling to shit, but

best you can. You can. I think you're doing okay, man. I really do.

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

I've labored my entire life for a better world than this. It's such a step backward.

You do it before I'm dead, I'll kill myself in front of you," I said, meaning it. Sonny nodded. "I'll send some feelers out. We're not goin' through this for chickenshit, Ace. We're gonna fuckin' win big.

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

This was a problem when he hit the pothole in the shitty road, broke the axle, and got thrown headfirst into the windshield at twenty-five miles an hour.

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

could show you such faith," he said, almost transported by the thought. "I could believe in you until all your pain faded to memories. I could believe in you as we lived side by side. I could be your lawyer and defend your right to make beautiful porn until we're too old to get it up. My faith could be absolutely boundless, if only….

Holy God, man, give us a break! You can't fuck all weekend! Wanna make a bet?