Quotes About Perseverance

I was trying not to think about all the ways I'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part. I had gotten used to the former and I hated going back to the latter.

I said: "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on." They all stopped talking and stared at me.

these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.

Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

Kai groaned under his breath. He had been hoping for one dramatic masterstroke that would take down the whole bridge and maybe make him feel better about his continued existence.

And it also told me I was going to need to go old school to break this fucker.

I had only taken three projectiles to the right shoulder, four to the left hip. This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.

I'm not normally afraid of things, the way humans are. I've been shot hundreds of times, so many times I stopped keeping count, so many times the company stopped keeping count. I've been chewed on by hostile fauna, run over by heavy machinery, tortured by clients for amusement, memory purged, etc., etc. But the inside of my head had been my own for +33,000 hours and I was used to it now. I wanted to keep me the way I was.

Kai." Ziede reached up to rub her face, apparently remembered her already ruined makeup, and planted her hands on her hips instead. "Could you manage not to find any more unique ways to destroy yourself until after we find this Hierarch? I don't really care to die alone." "Well, I'll try." It wasn't like Kai could make any promises right now.

TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.

For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.

I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

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Moon didn't find any of this very encouraging

While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.

I don't need rest, I'm fueled by spite.

Then she frowned at Khat, realizing what he had said. "If we jump? No one's jumping. Don't say that. We'll have to climb to get back.

Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

It was going to be a long trip.