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Quotes About Struggle

No one understood what his legend had cost him.
~ Julie Anne Long
Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He'd made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days he could convince himself that life was like war: bitter, desperate choices were often made in the name of survival, and some inevitably survived at the expense of others.
~ Julie Anne Long
she wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.
~ Julie Anne Long
How had it never occurred to him the peril in which women walked every day, even the most pampered of them? How valiant the simple act of being a woman was in so many ways.
~ Julie Anne Long
We did everything we could to save him, to defend him and still we knew he was going to die. One never feels more like speck upon the breast of the universe in those moments.
~ Julie Anne Long
Fallen woman. The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.
~ Julie Anne Long
After all, "justice" was really another word for commerce, something every man at the mercy of it eventually learns.
~ Julie Anne Long
No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Everything seems to be working. Except me. I'm broken.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I had to fight so hard not to cry.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I wish I could tell my parents, If you want to help me, help me die.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I just want the pain to end.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.
~ Julie Garwood
colin was certain he would feel better once he had gotten some sleep. At one o-clock in the morning he was wishing he could close his eyes and die. By 3 oclock, he thought he had. Colin sprawled out on the bed, face down, with his arms spread wide. Oh yes, death would have been a treat.
~ Julie Garwood
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. …" OLD TESTAMENT, ECCLESLASTES, 4:2
~ Julie Garwood
Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus
~ Julie Garwood
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~ Julie Orringer
It's no small matter to cross an ocean,Chagall said. More can be lost than canvas and paint. An artist must bear witness, Monsieur Fry. He cannot turn away, even if he wished to. An artist cannot bear witness if he's dead.
~ Julie Orringer
They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL
~ Julie Otsuka
Every few days the letters arrived, tattered and torn, from Lordsburg, New Mexico. Sometimes entire sentences had been cut out with a razor blade by the censors and the letters did not make any sense. Sometimes they arrived in one piece, but with half of the words blacked out. Always, they were signed, From Papa, With Love.
~ Julie Otsuka
They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.
~ Julie Otsuka