Quotes About Perseverance

I see you going to the giving-up place in your head. Get yourself out of there right now. We do not know he's dead any more than we did an hour ago. What we have to do is keep searching, because he's only definitely dead if we give up and sit here like moping camels. You are not allowed to mourn until you see a dead body, do you understand me?

Of course she is — that's what she's been up to this whole time,

Come on, Leaf, you can do it. Just imagine me at the top, laughing at how slow you are. And then cheering when you FIIIIINALLY get there.

and when Rollan nearly did.

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look at that river and think, I can't swim. But I remember diving into dark green oceans studded with drifting pieces of ice. I look at my claws and think, I'm clumsy and useless. But I remember winning every competition — I remember being at the top of the rankings. I feel like the air is too warm and I think I can't wait to go home and roll in snow, but I imagine being surrounded by IceWings and I immediately want to kill them all to protect my queen.

Another few months of training, maybe. I'm feeling really

That went well. He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

Peril came to because her body decided not to drown.

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Tui T. Sutherland

She wrestled with the tape as if it had deeply insulted her ancestors,

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Tui T. Sutherland

feeding enormous talking cockroaches and cleaning out monster spider dens would serve her right.

she said. "Hilarious. As if you'd have survived this long out here. Your minders

My point is that I grew up in the most terrible place in Pyrrhia, but it made me strong. This dungeon is nothing in comparison. Here, we get to eat every day and your queen even lets us out to stretch our wings more frequently than I can believe.

I'mjustsayingshe'dbeallright,

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

looked like only one of her wings was working.

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