Quotes About Perseverance

Ah, one last thing," he said. "Don't think you'll avoid

Mark followed him, determined to stop dwelling on the past. He had to focus on the future or he'd never reach it.

Gally," Minho said in a calmer voice, "you're nothing but a sissy who has never, not once, asked to be a Runner or tried out for it. You don't have the right to talk about things you don't understand. So shut your mouth.

The Lincoln Building, Mark tells himself. Get there; then you can go find your family.

We just need to get through it. Walk fast, but don't look like you know where you're going. We can't afford to carry anything—empty your arms and pockets or we might get attacked. We'll just have to hope we can find things in the Lincoln Building.

He leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes, for a moment wanting nothing but to fall asleep and never wake up again, or to do the opposite and kneel, bashing his head against the floor until it was over. But there was still that small sliver of clarity in his mind. He held on to it like a man clinging to a root on the side of a sheer cliff.

After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking.

It had been so close that day. If he'd known all that would come after, would he still have fought so hard to survive?

We can do it," she said in a quiet voice. Hearing her say that only made him worry more. "Holy crap, I'm scared." "Holy crap, you're human. You should be scared.

That's where we go," Sarah said. "We'll just plug our noses.

then we're all gonna bust our humps walking all night.

That girl loved to read like no one else, and she was making up for the months they spent literally running for their lives, when books were few and far between. The digital kind were all long gone, as far as Mark could guess—wiped away when the computers and servers all fried. Trina read the old-school paper kind.

if some shank decides he's a sissy-pants and tries to turn back, I'll make sure he does it with a broken nose and smashed privates.

And for that, they would pay. Thomas swore this to himself a thousand times a day.

Norbert Johnson

I'm tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this pain.

And because of that there will be a cure. Eventually. For everyone.

If we fix the Breaks, you won't have to deal with that anymore. Saving the world sounds great, but it's not a bad deal that we get to save ourselves in the bargain. - Riq

killed you three times already.

Great we're all bloody inspire

Great, we're all bloody inspired.

Be careful, he said dryly and don't die. - Minho

will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can't. We must, therefore, go on. That's is our only hope. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Poverty, sicknes, and death are evils; but the worst of all evils is unrequited love.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.