Quotes About Struggle

Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare.

Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.

Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.

Monsters are born of pain and grief and loss and anger. Your heart is full of them.

But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally.

She . . . is worried that her daughter is a very young person moving in a world that rewards inexperience with pain.

I felt like a collection of complaints and malfunctions

I spent my lifetime fighting the darkness without becoming the darkness. Maybe I had faltered at the very end. Maybe I had finally come up against something that made me cross the line-but even then, I hadn't turned into a degenerate freakazoid of the Kemmler variety. One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

It's our common enemy, though it isn't, really, an enemy. Pain is, at least when our bodies are working properly, a teacher. A really tough, really strict, and perfectly fair teacher.

Post-traumatic stress disorder from life-threatening injuries

When the Queens of Summer and Winter took to the same field, there were always storms.

The position must have been excruciating—it isn't every day that you get crucified and hung up as dinner for a monster, and you can't really train your muscles for it.

The damnedest thing was that there wasn't much I could do about it. Not because I was chained up, held at gunpoint, and probably going to die—though I had to admit, that might make things somewhat difficult

Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies. But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks. The drinks, people.

His feet still hurt horribly, but going back down the hill was easier than going up.

Because someone without furycraft has been made a High Lord," Tavi replied. "My heart bleeds for the poor lambs.

Yeah. I'm a lot better. I'm still not . . ." She shrugged. "I'm not exactly Little Miss Stability. At least, not yet. But I'm working on it." "Sometimes I think that's where most of us are," I said. "Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.