Quotes About Struggle

Alice, het spijt me. Ik kan je nu niet helpen. Ik ben niet almachtig, ik kan geen enkele vogel of welk beest dan ook oproepen dat het tegen zovelen kan opnemen. Maar ik blijf bij je, dat beloof ik. Tijdens deze proef, en bij alles wat daarna volgt. - Leo

Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.

Leaving home but going back home: once you crossed the ocean you were always on the wrong side. That was the lot of the immigrant, belonging everywhere but nowhere. Displaced, and unplaced.

Hey, Emma," Ben called. "Owen Zabriskie got a couple more hits last night. Did you watch the game?" "Most of it," Emma said. "When you're hot, you're hot," Spike said. Emma nodded. She wished she could get hot. Or even a little bit warm. She wondered if Owen Zabriskie had ever struck out eight times in a row.

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave

Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that.

only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.

Everything is difficult," she whispered. "Maybe that's something else that I've learned.

It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other." Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

Even for the luckiest of us, life is mostly pain, with moments of happiness thrown in just to keep us vertical.

a couple with a missing child, like any couple anywhere with any missing child. They have nothing.

If you're a karma person, then Ed and Natalie deserved nothing but sunshine and rainbows for the next hundred years. But all they got was enough happiness to know how awful it is to lose it.

The Nazis have given up

A drowning man groping for a twig.

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

The world wasn't perfect. Life wasn't perfect.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey. Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed.

No entiendo por qué te empeñas en seguir escribiendo —me dijo una vez que estaba especialmente deprimida —. Da la impresión de que hacerlo te causa un enorme malestar.

And she tried to breathe.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?