Quotes About Perseverance

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

What is broken can also be mended.

This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)

Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you're through. Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing left inside you but the past?

I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.

We came like doves across the desert. In a time when there was nothing but death, we were grateful for anything, and most grateful of all when we awoke to another day.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

Hard times make for simple minds

He thought about how love could move you in ways you wouldn't have imagined, one foot in front of the other, even when you thought you had nothing left inside.

The aunts always kept their promises, and they still do. They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

Things ended, and then they began again, only they would begin without Isabelle.

Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying, even when you're through, Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing inside you but the past.

Sally had returned to school for her degree in library science at Simmons University, and now, at the age of forty-four, she was the director of the Owens Library.

But she did choose courage. Didn't she?" "In life we don't always get what we choose. I gave her what she needed.

You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.