Quotes About Struggle

That boy is your weakness. Page 128

Charlie's fingers closed around the bat and she pushed herself to her feet, shaking with adrenaline and fear and rage. With no good ideas, she was going to go for the bad one. They better carve that on her tomb. The Charlie Hall credo.

I am in over my head. I am drowning.

soul." "There cannot be," said Ravan. "A person cannot be Devoured by their own soul. It would be like being murdered by life.

All power is cursed. The most terrible among us will do anything to get it, and those who'd wield power best don't want it thrust upon them.

I don't want to be a vampire, she told herself over and over again. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone. page 148

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

You ran away,' he said. 'I want to run away.' I shifted into a more comfortable position. It wasn't that I'd run. I hadn't had anywhere else but here to go. My fingers plucked at a piece of grass. He had everything, didn't he? 'Why?' I asked again. 'Because I am tired of people trying to assassinate me.

Here's why I don't like these stories: They highlight that I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all. Even if, by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them.

I was passed out cold while my family was murdered. It's hard to fall more lowly that that.

They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever.

I have had little fun in my life so far. The promise of more is difficult to resist.

Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

She looked down at herself, at the mess of her dress and the mess of her knees and the mess of everything. "I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if your're not. Even if it hurts.

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse

The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away.

She'd been afraid of herself. Somebody needed to keep her in check, and so that person became Charlie herself. Making sure she got knocked down every time things were going well, picking the wrong people to love, getting fired from jobs, screwing up. Charlie had been walking away from herself her whole life.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse - Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince

We can still walk away," Walk away. Wasn't that what she'd tried to do for years?

They'd probably be happier if he did," he told me. "I'm the reason my father is in exile. The reason my mother married him in the first place. My one sister and her girlfriend had to take care of me when I was little, even though they were barely more than kids themselves. My other sister almost got killed lots of times to keep me safe. Things will be easier without me around. They'll see that.

Sobre todo te odio porque pienso en ti. A menudo. Es repulsivo, pero no puedo evitarlo.