Quotes About Endurance

Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all. But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it.

Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.

It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

So much of winning is waiting. The other part, though, is taking the shot when it comes. Unleashing all that momentum.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

Plunge a heated sword into oil, and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.

I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.

Dolerá. El dolor te hace fuerte.

I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubborness.

Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.

The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

Now what?' 'We wait for the sun together,' he says, his gaze going to the hot blush of the horizon. 'And no one dies.' He sits with her as red turns to gold, as blue edges out black. He sits with her as grey creeps over Aslog's skin, and he does not look away from the betrayal on her face as she becomes stone.

This will be over quickly, he'd said. But not everything is better for being fast.

Musisz mie? do?? si?y, by zadawa? cios za ciosem, cios za ciosem, nie poddaj?c si? znu?eniu. To pierwsza rzecz, jakiej musisz si? nauczy? - jak wykrzesa? z siebie te si??.

It's exhausting to watch someone try to be a ship that rocks will break against.

Jude, nie próbuj zrobi? tego na siÅ'Ä™. Pozwól, ?eby samo przyszÅ'o.

Er sang sie durch ihre abgrundtiefe Einsamkeit, denn Trauer konnte man nicht verdrängen, abtun oder bekämpfen. Trauer hörte nur auf, wenn man sie durchlitt.

be the stone wall of an abandoned folly.

Death's favorite's don't die.