Quotes About Struggle

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all. Not superwoman? he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. You've lied to me all these years!

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

His parting shot to me had been, I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

Real ghosts are so much easier to deal with than the kind we carry around in our heads. Most people haunt themselves more effectively than any spirit.

She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.

Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.

Most of the time you're ass deep in alligators.

we're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

Judge for yourself. I've hated him and tried to love him for so many years I can't see him clearly.