Quotes About Endurance

Your love is a terrible thing," November says. "It sits heavy. It stings. It cuts." She shrugs. "I am Casimira." "I don't know if I can bear it." "I would not have chosen you if you could not. You will get stronger. You will grow calluses.

She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart—something irremovable and constant.

Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.

You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.

Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

Almanack's deep green eyes shone. "Is it? Have you done a long, hard thing for the sake of someone you loved, so long and so hard that your body shook with the difficulty of it, that you were thirsty and aching and ravenous by the time it was done, but it did not matter, you did not even feel the thirst or the pain or the hunger, because you were doing what was Necessary?" "Yes," September whispered.

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

This was how it was done; you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along.

You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers. 'With difficulty, and grief.

Eternity takes forever.

He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.

Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

12. Suffering of any kind is and shall be considered - contraband.

There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.

Patience is always the last ingredient in any spell, the last part in any machine, what ever your original blue prints say.

This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.

A sorrow is a resourceful beast.

Don't you know how far women stretch?

upper body to hold them steady.

No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in life—and pain and trouble come to all of us—no matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.

People can get used to almost anything.

When I heard that Helen drank a bottle of whiskey and shaved off all her hair, I thought, This is it. She's going to kill herself. But of course I underestimated Helen. Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

Human beings get no practice at staying. We have no special limbs for it. Once we commit to being still, darling, it's all we ever do.