Quotes About Perseverance

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am not a fool.

I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.

It turned our that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

Dolerá. El dolor te hace fuerte.

You're going to get all the things you think you can't have," she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. "You just don't know it yet.

We sat together on the couch, watching the cartoon skater fail to land jumps and fall in helpless, and probably unrequited love, with his coach. (They're watching Yuri on Ice!!)

she could be more humiliated, it turned out that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

The more exhausted I let myself get, the more I'll slip up. Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet, there is always so much more to do.

But if you don't want to go with them, you're going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.

After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume that things would be straightforward from here on in.

I feel the stitches holding me together as though I am a rag doll with stuffing trying to leak out.

We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.

We're not going to be fine, Tana. We're never going to be fine ever again.

I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubborness.

I'm fine,' Oak says, sliding off the horse and immediately collapsing onto the asphalt. 'Fine?' the knight echoes, eyebrows raised. 'I couldn't say it if it wasn't true,' says the prince, and manages to stagger to his feet. He leans heavily on a nearby car.

Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.

The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

Maybe being human isn't always being weak.

I still promise to run, tail between my legs. And since I have a tail, that should be amusing for everyone. Are you satisfied?

It turns out I am far from done with making mistakes.

Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

She looked down at herself, at the mess of her dress and the mess of her knees and the mess of everything. "I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.

You gotta be a shark in this business," Benny told her, with his soft voice and his slicked-back hair. "Sniff around for blood in the water.Greet life teeth first. And no matter what, never stop swimming.

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.