Quotes About Struggle

All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles —because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it.

Why couldn't I be down there having fun like a normal teenage girl? Why did I always have to feel threatened? Under fire?

On that ledge in the blackness, she'd truly recognized for the first time in her life that some creatures who went bump in the night might hate that they did.

You read about people like you in myths and in the Lore, struggling with their gifts. But it's the struggle that brings greatness. If your powers came easily to you, without incident, you would never appreciate them as you should. And you would no' be a good leader because you would be impatient with others who did have to work hard. It never comes easy to the great warriors in history.

Those bastards had driven me into a trap; Cyclops  ate  the trap.

Yo no siento nada de eso. (…) Al principio, estuve furioso. Luego me di cuenta de que si podemos estar juntos, entonces todo me ha traído a ti. Piensa en ello, debo dar gracias incluso a ese maldito vampiro por golpearme en el Hie. Si no hubiera sido por eso... (…) Además, no me importa la lucha, cuando el premio es tan digno. - Bowen a Mariketa

Enemigos mortales... tentaciones prohibidas.

Bettina knew exactly what she'd say: Trehan Daciano, I screwed up. I thought you were going to die, and I acted to save you. Clearly, I was too hasty. Sometimes I do foolish things, especially if my entire life is off kilter, and I'm struggling with emotions I've never felt before.

Doona bring me back to life only to destroy me once more.

Everyone said a Lykae's mate could soothe his any woe—if she really was his, she had her bloody work cut out for her.

I shut the door and turned to my task. How hard could it be to boil bathwater? I'd watched an episode of Little House on the Prairie once. Ergo: Let's do this bitch. Four burn wounds and an hour later, I was lowering myself into the little tub, waist-deep water steaming around me.

I'll like it more if you fight. You'll like it more if you don't.

I will have spent my entire life in service to the kingdom, only to abandon it in a time of need, for a female who doesn't even want me!

Everybody says we got no hope of goan anywhere. You ever think we deserve better than the Basin?" Without hesitation, she says, "Non." I ponder it over another sip. "Ouais, me neither." My eyes blurred with tears. Yet Jack had made plans to get out of the Basin and fight for a better life. He'd intended to fly in the face of everything he'd grown up believing. That struck me as unimaginably brave.

You'll move through worlds," the female murmured, as if imparting a secret to Lanthe. "In one realm, hurt. In one realm, leave. In one realm, cleave. In one realm, shine.

Everyone will just figure this week was Evie's red-light at the Y. When I'm OTR, I scourge the halls like Godzilla. Your little la-la-land thing is cute compared to the breathing of actual fire.

I see. Obviously, you lost the Hie. Who won?" "The vampire." "A vampire beat you? And a witch cursed you? Damn, Scot, seems you're having a fuck-all month.

Even if he knew for certain that she was his mate, could he accept a witch as his own? Present her to the clan as his female? Again he imagined her trembling and wanton beneath him, and his body quickened for her. I'll bloody figure something out.

Alas, I fear that floral arrangement and playing the harpsichord are forever out of my grasp. As you can imagine, the knowledge of my deficiencies is crushing

Even as he wanted to master her, he hated the idea of her as acquiescent. He needed her to struggle against him, to give as good as she got. He craved power plays between them, mental games. But ultimately he did want to dominate her.

So, what do you do, Ellie?" he asked. Well, previously, I held a position on death row, but lately I've been a vampire's plaything. Soon I'll be sacrificed so the Soul Reaper and the Enemy of Old can make babies.

When you've been in the dark as long as I have, moy ángel, there is no mistaking the light.

Arthur, I…I'd just been released from a mental institution.' She looks up at me from under he lashes, gauging my reaction while seeming to dread it. I just stop my jaw from dropping. 'Mental institution?' I'd been sick the last quarter of my sophomore year, so my mom made me go to a clinic in Atlanta.' This girl's been heaven-sent for me! I, too, had been sick. Until I'd tested my concoctions on myself, eventually discovering a cure.

Nunca viene fácilmente para todos los grandes guerreros en la historia.