Quotes About Struggle

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

She crawled," Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. "She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren't for the two subs in the pack, I'd be on the bottom. And she wouldn't stand up in my presence for guilt.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Zee said, grumpily, "Liebling, this is not a good idea." "Zee," I told him, "I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

Evil must always be fought.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires--outmatched is an understatement.

It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.

People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.

Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

Survival is not a pretty business.

Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.

The problem was that she didn't need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." I

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.