Quotes About Struggle

My difficulty, I saw then, had always lain in finding a way to give back all the impressions I had received, to render an account to a god who had never come and never come, despite my desire to surrender everything that was stored inside me. Yet even so my receptive faculty had not, for some reason, failed me: I had remained a devourer while yearning to become a creator

There was no such thing as an unblemished childhood, though people will do everything they can to convince you otherwise. There was no such thing as a life without pain.

Life is sending you in one direction and you're pulling away in another, like you're disagreeing with your own destiny, like who you are is in disagreement with who they say you are.

He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a value for her too in his attention, though its consequence is her captivity.

I read somewhere that a space station is always slowly falling back to earth, and that every few months or so a rocket has to be sent to push it back out again. In rather the same way, a woman is forever dragged at by an imperceptible force of biological conformism; her life is relentlessly iterative; it requires energy to keep her in orbit. Year after year she'll do it, but if one year the rocket doesn't come then down she'll go.

I have wanted to be free my whole life... the germ of a possibility that was soon to grow and rage like a cancer through my life... on the brink of rebellion whose impossible yearnings...

What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

Doer, dói sempre. Só não dói depois de morto. Porque a vida toda é um doer.

Father's death left us very badly off, a fact mother circled round with us for a considerable time – she had her own bearings to get.

The woman without a background has a thin time, at any age,

I'm really quite efficient you know'. He shook his head over me. 'Too much conscience. You must find yourself very difficult to live with

his illness had done this much, in wiping out his old scrupulousness; it was, I imagine, one of the many intimately personal castings-off which heaven alone knew how many other men on active service were practising.

Stop" "I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell." -"I'm okay." "I'm not.

I don't think you know what you want." "Yes. I do. I want you, and being with you feels a hell of a lot better than being without you. I'm not going to fight it anymore.

You're a complication I don't need." He followed, placed his hands on each side of her head, and planted his knee between her thighs. "But you're a complication I want. One I'm going to have.

Stay away from me, Nick." She held out a hand to hold him off. He grabbed her arm and pulled her against his chest. "I can't," he said softly.

For the first time since she'd pieced her heart back together, she felt a small tug at one of the strings. She dropped her hands to her sides and took a step back. The one word she'd waited to hear could destroy her carefully constructed life. "Don't." Don't make me forget. Don't make it better. Don't make me love you again. - Autumn Haven

I don't want to let you go," he said just above a whisper. "I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

each loss had been devastating in its own ways and had changed her life.

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't. - Hope

The rage wraps itself around me like vines, like moss swallowing a rock. It's a natural state. It's good. It's symbiotic.

How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?

You, of all people, understand the burden of having to prove that you are good enough to exist, that you are worth all the grief your mother caused everyone. Bastard equals monster in our hearts' respective lexicons; that's why you always had such insight into it.

Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.