Quotes About Struggle

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.

The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

the painful irony of your mother fighting for inclusion that doesn't include you is still decades away.

Mor had said she would pray for them. One side of Signe's mind said, Bosh, a waste of time. But the other side, the one that grew up praying and believing that God was indeed real and in His heaven, that He cared about His people here on earth and listened to their cries—that part fought to break free from the chest where she had banished it.

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

Life's a bitch," I said. "And then you die," Larry finished for me.

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.