Quotes About Struggle

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

Well, the first hole's the hardest," Magnet said.

Zero took the shovel. Then he swung it like a baseball bat. The metal blade smashed across Mr. Pendanski's face. His knees crumpled beneath him. He was unconscious before he hit the ground.

She said his life would be like walking upstream in a rushing river. The secret was to take small steps and just keep moving forward. If he tried to take too big a step, the current would knock him off his feet and carry him back downstream.

If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed

Stanley took a shower—if you could call it that, ate dinner—if you could call it that, and went to bed—if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.

Well, not exactly. I got a C-minus on the paper I wrote about my idea for the ergie. So then

they would have made me a ward of the state.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up.

Twenty-five Percent Slam

The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.

Stanley raised and lowered one shoulder.

die a slow and painful death.

tied to broken rubber

It must swim for miles through the desert Uttering cries that are almost human.

She said. I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days.

Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…

and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly