Quotes About Struggle

I needed somewhere that wasn't bad. I wanted to be light and happy like you, and I wanted never for you to see the dark. I was scared I would infect you with terrible feelings and pictures in my head of walking out in front of the traffic and - No. That's not for you, see? Not for you to hear. I needed you to be my sunlight, Bessi,' and here George paused and her words became very small, 'I lost mine, I lost it.

The greatest challenge of life is to not die before we die

As for Bessi, she spent her first human month in an incubator, with wires in her chest, limbs straggling and pleading like a beetle on its back. The incubator had a lot to answer for.

Dar de asemenea la acea ora de indoiala am jurat in adancul sufletului meu ca voi lupta, aducandu-mi partea mea (poate partea leului) cu toata rabdarea posibila, ignorand toate dezamagirile si descurajarile, chiar daca eram sortita sa fiu invinsa in final.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.

Come with me, Elliot. I have wanted to ask you for weeks, but I have waited, out of fear and doubt and the belief that it's nothing but my own selfishness that wants you with me. I wrestled with this, and chance after chance passed me by. I can't afford to lose this one. Please accept. This time, please accept. And please believe that no matter what, I am, ever, Your Kai

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of self-pity and pain.

Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.

How much of her life had she spent waiting? Waiting for a plant to sprout? Waiting for her father's judgment? Waiting for another letter to appear in the knothole from Kai? Waiting for years after Kai left to feel at peace with her decision? She fed the Reduced, she did her chores, she avoided her father and her sister, and she waited.She did the duties she'd been taught as a Luddite, and she lied with every breath.

They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win.

Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Vaugh scowled. Just like his brother to harass a homeless man.

Scarlett soon found herself leaning halfway out the window, trying to figure out how to get the shutters closed. If she killed herself trying to close these darn things, she was going to be super annoyed.

Everything was a trap, and the more Vaughn fought to escape, the more he got entangled.

Odds were in favor of you dying, either by running into Tyet operations, by starvation or thirst, or by Mother Nature giving you a stone spanking.

Sometimes you must go through the ugly to get to the pretty

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

A heart's a heavy burden.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.