Quotes About Struggle

That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one. She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.

I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.

Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

The world issued an open invitation to humanity to fail itself. To be selfish and small. Mean, even evil at times.

There are worse things than love.

Sam. You and me are super fucked up right now, but your mom is family to me and you know that.

We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move. He was going to wreck me. Break me. And I'd never needed anything more.

I know you want me to leave. I understand that. But I can't, princess … You're pregnant. And you're alone." "Lots of women have babies on their own." "Not my baby, Abby.

Her dreams had not survived her dreaming them; they'd been broken and repaired, only to be smashed again and again.

It's about his family. It will always be about his family. And himself. Deep in your heart you know that and you're trying to convince yourself that you can save him. And you can't. There's no saving Dylan Daniels.

I don't want to love you," he said. "I know." "Half the time I hate you." "I know.

But I've been the queen of crazy for the last few months. The last year, really. Who am I kidding? My entire life I've been at the epicenter of crazy. I am the hurricane's eye.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

The history of our country should not be written in the blood of slaves. It is an abomination.

When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.

A rage so sharp it turned to grief. A grief so big it turned to rage.

There's a lot of waiting that occurs in the lives of people who live with depression. In between the desire to be well and wellness is a lot of waiting. We wait to feel better. We wait to get better.

Oppression is unjustly distributed.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Gabe, did you pray?' 'Sort of.' 'Me too. Do you believe?' 'No. Do you?' 'No.' 'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.' 'What in?' 'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.' 'Yes.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

fifty, ambitiously but unsuccessfully dressed in a black satin