Quotes About Perseverance

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Always. Stay always. Always.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

She realizes that all big decisions are ones that must be decided and decided again. She imagines that when you fall in love, you must decide to be in love a million times or more, and when you go to college, you must decide again and again to stay in college,

forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word...

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that.

And I make a little vow then, to myself. To not let the backs and forths of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

Real tough guys don't swear, they just do.

Turned up or turned down, the feeling is permanent. She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

What should never be forgotten is this: Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts.

Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.

Sometimes, humans must also attempt to come back to life.

It's okay. She can handle being a disappointment. She can handle a lot of things.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.