Quotes About Struggle

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.

So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last. Ask instead: would you do it? Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Don't say it. Don't say nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. Don't tell me it doesn't matter because it does. And don't tell me I look fine because that's a lie. I'm a freak, Mom. Look at me.

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.

Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have.

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.

Marina sighs. "Love is like a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No, because it sucks you under and you drown." "But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For everyone person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.

desperate people often do things that they normally would not do

A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.

There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.

It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Like: The fifth time's the charms. Like: Things between Zoe and me will be better once the baby's born. Like: One sip isn't going to kill me.

Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn't want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.