Quotes About Endurance

I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.

Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all.

Fire tests gold

Shadowhunters are slow to love but once we love, we love forever.

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

That though he is weak, he can still burn.

For love is as strong as death.

I can stand." "It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. that's not my definition of 'standing.'" "Its leaning," Jace told him. "Leaning comes right before standing.

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

Therefore you can never lose hope- hatikva -because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Whatever doesn't kill me...had better start running.

Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

With hope at last.

By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn't working. ~pg. 317~

You're my heart, Magnus Bane. Stay unbroken, for me.

Almost four hundred years is quite a lot to take even if you moisture regulary

Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo's David. Versailles. Magnus himself.

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.