Quotes About Perseverance

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

You can't stop living

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

I was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everybody else

Sometimes when we're in the darkest places we find the brightest light

Everything is going to be okay. You are going to be okay. You may already be okay.

Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.

I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.

It's life. When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.

Jessamyn West said, 'Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me.

There was nothing to make him last.

Nothing will ever be okay again, not in the same way, but I'm getting used to it.

The cadence of suffering has begun."—CesarePavese

It takes many, many coats to cover the red. No matter what I do, it seeps right through, like the walls are bleeding.

Not gold, not flowing. Standing still.

Because as tough as she is, she needs something to believe in.

My legs are long, so I can cover a lot of ground, even if I have to dodge people left and right and sometimes leap over their heads. This is easy to do because they move in slow motion, like a herd of zombies or slugs.

I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

You almost drowned Roamer? Something like that Always finish what you start man.