Quotes About Struggle

Summer was supposed to be the best part of the year, but so far Nikki's summer sucked. It sucked hard. It sucked like a vacuum that got hold of the drapes.

Fine, fine, everyone's fine," said the vampire, a mad gleam in his red eyes, crossing his arms over his chest as Bela Lugosi did in black-and-white films. "Fine as scattered pieces of sand." She wondered how much effort it had taken him to talk to her the way he had—to, what was it he'd said? Keeping my thoughts clearly ordered—and how crazy he was going to be now, as a result of that strain.

We show her that I am no feckless High King." "And how do we do that?" I ask. "With great difficulty," he says. "Since I fear she is right.

Maybe my messed-up life has turned me into someone capable of doing messed-up things.

Si eres la enfermedad, supongo que tampoco puedes ser la cura

I feel the stitches holding me together as though I am a rag doll with stuffing trying to leak out.

I didn't understand the horror of being so powerful and so utterly powerless all at the same time.

We're not going to be fine, Tana. We're never going to be fine ever again.

He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it.

Oak makes a low moan and tries to sit up. 'Jude,' he mutters. 'Jude, we can't just let him die.

Call tried to call

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been figting my own shadow.

I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubborness.

I'm fine,' Oak says, sliding off the horse and immediately collapsing onto the asphalt. 'Fine?' the knight echoes, eyebrows raised. 'I couldn't say it if it wasn't true,' says the prince, and manages to stagger to his feet. He leans heavily on a nearby car.

But my heart keeps beating harder, and I shrink into myself, as though if I am still enough, anxiety will stop gnawing on my insides.

La ambición es muy curiosa: puedes contraerla como si fuera una fiebre, pero no es tan fácil desprenderte de ella

I wasn't kind Jude, not to many people, not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de conservar.

To the incompetence of our enemies.

The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

He hates you, even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you all the more for it.

I gobble the food down, trying to imagine that I am sitting at the table with them. Trying to imagine myself as their daughter again, and not what's left of her. A cuckoo trying to fit back into the egg.

The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

Many nights I drifted off to sleep to his rumbling voice reading from a book of battle strategy. And despite myself, despite what he'd done and what he was, I came to love him. I do love him. It's just not a comfortable kind of love.