Quotes About Perseverance

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

Death is not the end.

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" "No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Oh, it was real, all right," she says. "We lived it; we were there. If you go through something and put up with it even if you want to get away from it more than anything in the whole world, then it was definitely bloody real.

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

Through Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both.

Never invisible again , the monster said, finally letting up, its huge branch-like fists curled tight as a clap of thunder. It turned to Conor. But there are harder things than being invisible , it said.

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.

No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?

But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real...Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too.

People break, I guess. Everyone.

I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes - And my feet stop running - But then I pick up one - And then the other - And I'm running for it again - I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done ," he says.

There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop.

Patience," she says again. But she says it impatiently.

You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.

go in swinging