Quotes About Struggle

There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

I was new and didn't realize that brand new writers are treated like light bulbs; when one burns out, you can always buy more, screw the next one in, and it lights up just as bright. No, I am not being too harsh about how publishing treats new writers. If anything I'm toning it down. Sorry, for all you aspiring authors out there, but truth is truth, it is a hard business. Shine up the armor around your ego, harden your heart, keep your head down, and write.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

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Eppure continuano a chiedermi: Perchè scrivi di sesso e di mostri? L'unica risposta sincera è questa: Lo dite come se avessi scelta. Invece sono queste le idee che mi arrivano. Queste sono le idee che mi sono sempre arrivate. Voglio scrivere di esseri che possono dissanguarmi, divorarmi o portarmi a letto. Ogni ragazza ha bisogno di un hobby.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

We lose too many people that way, both male and female. Twenty-two combat veterans die every day in the United States alone from suicide, and it isn't just soldiers who have just come home from their tours of duty. There is no statute of limitations on nightmares and depression. With numbers like that, we need to start talking to one another more.

hope is a lying bitch that strings you along with just enough promise that you don't want to give up.

I enjoy killing people with you. Could that count as a date?" I shook my head. "No, nothing illegal counts." He sighed. "Dating is harder than I thought it would be." "Always," I said.

I'd like to save all my friends, but if someone is bent on self-destruction, there is only so much you can do. You can't shovel other people's shit for them, not unless they're willing to pick up a shovel and help.

there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone.

there was still a part of me that kept waiting for it all to go to hell. At least I'd stopped poking at it and trying to break it myself, that was a step up. Let's hear it for therapy and smart friends who intervened when I fell back into old destructive habits.

Just because you start the day off with nightmares doesn't mean you don't still have to go to work. Sometimes being a responsible grown-up sucked a lot.

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

You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

Everything wants to live, Newman, even monsters.

One of my other boyfriends said I hated being in love, and he was right. It always felt so stupid, like your insurance rates should go up, because you're impaired. Romantically handicapped.

Frustration in a fight can lead to four things: You give up, you fight harder, you fight worse, or you cheat.

I was wiping Tlaloci's brains off my face when Olaf came to stand in front of me. I never thought I'd say this, but damn I'm glad to see you. He actually smiled. I saved your life. That made me smile. I know.

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

As usual, I was fey enough to see the problem, but too human to fix it.