Quotes About Sacrifice

I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

If she knows you didn;t love her enough to stay here for her, it will finish her off.

Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn't I? I had come here and it had cost me dear.

Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it's too much for you to cope with.

ALL MY LIFE I'VE ENDED UP LOOKING AFTER PEOPLE, FITTING MYSELF AROUND WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT THEY WANTED.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.

Women always have to make the difficult choices.

All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could, and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices, but there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

carriage. "I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

You just destroy the things you love. By weighing it down. Right? page 77

We watched the sun's gentle fall, and the lengthening shadows creeping towards us, and I thought about the New York skyline and that nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

There was no such thing as happiness, she thought, if one of your children was miserable. She

That's what he was asking me to extinguish—the small child as well as the man—all that love, all that history.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

Averigüe qué me haría feliz y averigüe que quería hacer, y me forme para el trabajo que haría posible esas dos cosas. - Tal como lo dices, parece muy sencillo. - Es sencillo -dijo-. Pero lo cierto es que también supone un grandísimo esfuerzo. Y la gente no está dispuesta a hacer este tipo de sacrificio.

have given up my best years and watched my friends freeze, drown and burn. I have given up my innocence, my friends their lives, so that I might grieve for what I was never sure I even wanted. At least, until it was too late.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? -Lou

I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love.

there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.