Quotes About Perseverance

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.

It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

There's people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete.

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it

Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough. "I promise," she whispered. "I'll try.

Plunge a heated sword into oil, and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

You've got to grow where you're planted

Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.

Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

Can you save yourself?

You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down.

But first, blot out a few more sparks. Drown a few more stars.