Quotes About Perseverance

Linda Castillo

As much as I want to make things right, some chasms are simply too treacherous to traverse.

Never use limitations as an excuse for mediocrity.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

I did not want to be recognized as "Anne Sexton's daughter," and I was running from that label as hard as I could.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.

She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

hurting was better than dying.

No!" he roared. "I've had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!" "Please, call me Dione," she murmured. "I don't want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!" "Of course I will, when my job is finished. I can't let you ruin my record of successful cases, can I?

No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.

She had learned never to look back, never to give fate a second chance to kick her in the teeth.

You don't have any brain damage. Any. Not even minimal. So now I have to believe in miracles, because you're a living, breathing, walking, talking miracle, and that means there's something else out there after all of this, isn't there? A luminous smile spread across her face. Yes, she said simply. 'Then get used to it, sweetheart, because the miracle has a permanent bodyguard.

How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again? You just do it...Because you have no choice.

Linda Lael Miller

Linda Lael Miller

Your Lily is a pretty little thing, but she's as fractious as my Susannah." Caleb grinned. "It's going to take two hands and all my wits to keep her in line," he confessed. Unwillingly

Caleb swore under his breath and got to his feet. He had so much to say to Lily, and presents to give her, and here she'd taken off on some wild goose chase. She really meant to move to that damned farm, the stubborn little chit.

Lily remembered Sandra saying that Caleb's mind couldn't be changed by a blast of dynamite once he'd made it up on a subject, and she had a hunch both women were right. Caleb was the most hardheaded man on earth.

No matter what the future holds even if, God forbid, Conner dies in his prime, or leaves me, or whatever else that fates might throw at us it would be worth it because once you've loved someone the way I love Conner, once someone loved you the he loves me, once you've loved and been loved that way nothing and no one can ever take it away. Whether it last 5 minutes or 50 years that love becomes a permanent part of you.

No," Jack struggled to quip, "but

The last damn thing he needed now was a two-week ride into the Washington Territory. For all he knew, he might come back and find Emma married to that piss-ant banker she seemed to think of so highly. Riding

One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .