Quotes About Struggle

her words were lost. The Griever had sucked her face into its blubbery skin and was pulling her farther and farther in, suffocating her.

sick, Mark. I'm really, really sick. I need to die. I need to die and I don't wanna die for nothing.

I'm stuck!" Dad yelled. "My big fat tubby body is stuck!

Brenda frowned, then focused on Thomas. "You're—we're—doing the right thing." "I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore," Thomas said, hearing the numbness in his own voice. He desperately wanted sleep. "Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

Minho laughed, then raised the palm of his hand and shoved Gally in the face. Thomas half stood as he watched the Glader crash down into his chair, tipping it over backward, cracking it in two pieces. Gally sprawled across the floor, then scrambled to stand up, struggling to get his hands and feet under him. Minho stepped closer and stomped the bottom of his foot down on Gally's back, driving his body flat to the ground.

They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

If we fix the Breaks, you won't have to deal with that anymore. Saving the world sounds great, but it's not a bad deal that we get to save ourselves in the bargain. - Riq

You asleep with your eyes open?" she asked him. Thomas tried to smile. "No. Just thinking about how much my life sucks." "Mine does too. Sucks big-time. But I´m glad I´m with you

killed you three times already.

Newt looked at the Cranks, then back at Thomas. "It comes and goes, man. I can't explain it. Sometimes I can't control myself, barely know what I'm doing. But usually it's just like an itch in my brain, throwing everything o?-kilter just enough to bother me— make me angry.

respond, but his figure seemed rigid. Mark could tell his hands were clenched into fists. "Toad? We need you to sit down. And then tell us everything that's happened since we left the village." The guy didn't move. "Come on," Mark pushed.

The rage crept in. Like a shivering rat looking for a spot of warmth, a crumb of food. And with every passing day came an increasing anger so intense that Thomas sometimes caught himself shaking uncontrollably before he reeled the fury back in and pocketed it. He didn't want it to go away for good; he only wanted to store it and let it build.

there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

You're tearing me apart!

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

Nothing can comeof this nothing can comeOf us: of me with my grim techniquesOr you who have sealed your wombWith a ring of convulsive rubber:Although we come together,Nothing will come of us.

All families lie together, though some are burned alive.The others try to feelFor them. Some can, it is often said.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even—and maybe especially—one's loyal ladywife.

Her voice was weak, too much air and not enough sound.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.