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Quotes About Struggle

Even the strong couldn't be strong all the time.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
In this realm, evil has vanquished love. - Alítheia
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She alone knew that one must meet the world's madness with more madness.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn it's back on you.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes, Belle, our troubles are too deep for words," Lumiere said. "It's at times like those when we need our friends the most
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sophie lowered her head into her hands, feeling as if she were made of the thinnest glass, so brittle and fragile that the softest tap could shatter her. She had escaped death only to come face-to-face with it once more.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
But power is a treacherous thing; it's bite is sweet, its kiss can sting and unless I'm much mistaken, it's never given, always taken.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, "May you live in interesting times.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Oh, my. Oh, dear," he said. "Is this also love? This terrible pain?" Belle nodded. "Love is hard. I had no idea how hard. Is it worth the pain?" "Yes," Belle said. "It is.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Absolutely. It's the unhappy people who get things done. Have you ever noticed that? They build things. And discover things. And invent things. Like calculus. Only a very unhappy person could have come up with that. The happy ones just sit around eating strudel.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.' Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
let Corvus into my heart the day Edward's soldiers came, and he's been there ever since. Devouring it bit by bit. Every decision I made was led by Corvus. Every cruelty I inflicted. Every life I took. He convinced me that mercy was weakness. That kindness would be repaid with treachery. And I believed him. And now?
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It does not look good. Then again, few things do in the dead of night. The small dark hours are the undoing of many. Candlelight throws shadows on the walls of our souls, shadows that turn a mouse into a monster, a downturn into disaster.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It's damned hard to kill a princess.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Run home. Slam the door. Throw the bolt. It won't help. The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside that will tear you apart.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
One day you'll go walking with the devil, my girl, she told me, and you won't come back at all.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Cada guerra es distinta, aunque todas las batallas son iguales. El enemigo no es más que una distracción. Porque siempre, siempre, luchas contra ti
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Los lobos del bosque tienen dientes afilados y largas zarpas, pero es el lobo de tu interior el que acabara por destrozarte.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
No había sentido ningún dolor, sólo temor por él. Creo que fue entonces cuando empezó la revolución. No la de París, ni la de los franceses, sino la mía.
~ Jennifer Donnelly