Quotes About Perseverance

It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.

Then he closed his eyes, and like millions of his fellow humans, wondered why troubles could never come singly, but in avalanches, so that you became increasingly destabilized with every blow that hit you.

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen,

Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his lowest ebb and helped him turn his fortunes around; nor, having normal eyesight, could he escape the fact that she was a very good-looking woman.

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.

He's the turd that won't flush," as Strike put it to Lucy,

Strike would have advised any friend to leave and not look back, but he had come to see her like a virus in his blood that he doubted he would ever eradicate; the best he could hope for was to control its symptoms.

Si te parabas a buscarla, podías encontrar belleza casi en cualquier parte; sin embargo, muchas veces, la batalla para llegar al final de cada jornada te hacía olvidar que existía ese lujo, y que era gratis

Robert Galbraith

It was no good waiting for anyone else to save me. I had to save me.

If you need a reason to keep going right now, you should hold onto the fact that you're going to be the star witness at this fucker's trial, and if you need a reason to live beyond that, you ought to remember that you were the one Edie called when she believed she was facing death, because she still trusted you with the thing that mattered to her more than anything else.

Robert Galbraith

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise… Emily Dickinson Aspiration

and in spite of everything he was going through, she too was tired, she too had personal worries, and would have appreciated just a little effort.

Bestigui's statement presented the unassailable front of a rock face without crampons.

Strike had not been able to think of a better course of action, given that he intended to stay until he had spoken to Robin again, than continuing to drink.

es difícil abandonar de pronto un amor duradero: es difícil, pero debes hacerlo como sea...»

Let's go, Cormoran," said Robin. She took his arm, and to her great relief and surprise he came along meekly. It reminded her of leading the enormous Clydesdale her uncle had kept on his farm.

am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

it is hard to throw off long-established love: hard, but this you must managed somehow

I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore

dismissal—" "It weren't coz of tha'," said Holly.

You lost a good friend and a wife within—what—months of each other?" "A few months, yes." "You were writing all through that time?" "Yes," said Fancourt, with an angry, condescending laugh, "I was writing all through that time. It's my profession. Would anyone ask you whether you were still in the army while you were having private difficulties?