Quotes About Struggle

Part of me is looking for a way to destroy myself." She pauses. "And now you are judging me. I can see it. In your eyes." "This is a safe space, Paisley. You should feel free to say anything here.

I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.

Not by a goddamn long shot.

Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.

Who knew grief could be so goddamned physical, a dark and sly trickster that blindsided you when you weren't even thinking about loss, and suddenly you couldn't get it out of your mind again.

No. Not really. I haven't been okay for a long time, and I don't think I realized the extent of the toll this is taking on me.

what monsters might lurk in a man?

Beaumont wanted Esmond very badly. Esmond wanted Beaumont's wife. And she didn't want anybody.

I'm no good at being good.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well." "Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.

it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.

His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

Malo se ona trudila, i mnogo se kajala, / I Å¡ap?u?i >Nikad ne?u pristati< — uvijek pristajala.« (Byron)

Znala sam da me želiš. To je jedino oko ?ega nikad nisam dvojila. Ali dovu?i te u svoju postelju — tebe, najve?eg kurvara u krš?anskom svijetu — zaboga, bilo je to gore nego onda kad sam Bertiea morala odvu?i zubaru. I

Yes, he answered silently. He wanted help. He wanted help being born over again and coming out right this time.

Venice she is like the beautiful cortigiana—the courtesan—who has"—Zeggio frowned, searching for the phrase he wanted—"dropped on the hours of trouble." "Fallen on hard times," James said. "Fallen on hard times," Zeggio repeated. He murmured the phrase to himself a few times. "I see. The same but not the same.

The two children whose parents had been cheated and taken advantage of while they only tried to live decent lives.

Holding a large object aloft, she went after him, and the fellow ran. Then something struck the back of Rupert's head. The world went black with flashing lights. The ground opened up under his feet, and down he went.

Što te onda zadržava ovdje? upitao je sebe. Koja te je mo?na sila ovamo dovukla, da glupavo zuriš poput mjese?inom o?aranog šteneta u ku?u samo zato jer je ona unutra? I koji su te to lanci držali ovdje, u iš?ekivanju da je samo na?as vidiš? Dodir. Poljubac. To je odvratno, rekao je sebi. I bilo je, ali bilo je istina, i on je to mrzio i mrzio je nju jer je to u?inila istinom.

Moj, pomislila je, i ta je pomisao bila bolna, gorkoslatka, misao nade i o?aja u jednome. Bio je njezin imenom, i po crkvenom i po svjetovnom zakonu. Ali nijedan ga zakon nije mogao u?initi istinski, potpuno njezinim. Za to ?e se trebati dugo i tvrdokorno boriti.

The man who fails, my learned friend, is the man who dies.

My life has run from misery to happiness.