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Quotes About Struggle

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
~ Martha Wells
Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.
~ Martha Wells
Nobody fucking listens to me.
~ Martha Wells
That's the other problem with human security: they're allowed to give up.
~ Martha Wells
I'd hacked my governor module and kept doing my job because I didn't know what else to do (except you know, a murderous rampage, but murderous rampages are overrated and interfere with one's ability to keep watching media)
~ Martha Wells
I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.
~ Martha Wells
We're cheaply produced and we suck.
~ Martha Wells
With rueful resignation, she added, "Stone said I should just take you, fight it out, and get it over with." That was typical. "He gives me lousy advice, too.
~ Martha Wells
WHEN I GOT BACK to HaveRatton Station, a bunch of humans tried to kill me. Considering how much I'd been thinking about killing a bunch of humans, it was only fair.
~ Martha Wells
I said: "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on." They all stopped talking and stared at me.
~ Martha Wells
these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.
~ Martha Wells
And if it was this hard with Ratthi and Pin-Lee (Gurathin had never liked me and it was mutual), what was it going to be like with Mensah, if I managed to get that far? I didn't know if I could trust them. I wanted to. But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.
~ Martha Wells
I was depressed this morning. I'd tried watching some new serials last night and even they couldn't distract me; reality was too intrusive.
~ Martha Wells
I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.
~ Martha Wells
I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.
~ Martha Wells
Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.
~ Martha Wells
I don't like planets. There's dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.
~ Martha Wells
It took a tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please. He said, "Its comm is down.
~ Martha Wells
Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.
~ Martha Wells
Kai groaned under his breath. He had been hoping for one dramatic masterstroke that would take down the whole bridge and maybe make him feel better about his continued existence.
~ Martha Wells
And "weak" wasn't really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn't have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn't a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, "It's not weak." The
~ Martha Wells
It must be hard to respect other people's privacy when you've had to fight and scheme for every minute of your own. Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.
~ Martha Wells
In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.
~ Martha Wells
Ship might be unresponsive but it was doing its best and I didn't want it to hurt.
~ Martha Wells