Quotes About Perseverance

How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had? I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath. Oh, I am mousy, she said. All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try. Even a mouse bites.

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time." Claire

The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects.

Well, he said, I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage. He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

Rachel Caine

I'm all right, Nic, Wolfe said, and finally looked at him. We walked through the dungeons under Rome, survived Philadelphia, and this perfumed cage won't bring us to our knees. We're all stronger than that. All right, Santi said. But don't ask me to stop standing next to you. Because you know I will, however much you shout about it.

Giving up is always easy. It's the peace that follows that sucks.

Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.

But the past never leaves us. It's in every breath, every cell, every second. I know that now.

I've failed you, he said. You just stopped the boy. That's not what I meant. I know what you meant, Oliver. You count too many things as failures when they are merely setbacks. She beckoned him up, and he stood, still intimately close to her. She didn't seem bothered. I feel safer with my old enemy beside me.

Better broke than dead.

When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

Worried about me? Brendan snorted, Hell freezes and the devil skates before that happens. You can survive anything.

How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?

Over my- I was going to say, 'over my dead body,' but- - michael