Quotes About Struggle

It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.

trying his best to discourage them,

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it.

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!" My father was dyslexic but would not admit it.

Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

As long as human nature is what it is, I'm afraid there will always be another war

Hell of a thing." Bad Jacket shook his head. "He survives that warehouse fire only to fall down a flight of stairs.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

Twenty-one hours before Thora's air tube would be removed. How long could she last after that?

I've heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don't love. But I've always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn't love you.

one must go through war to reach peace.4

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Tell me how you prove coercion? How you prove the difference between being hit on and hunted? How you prove your arms were held down? Your body was touched? Your life was threatened if you ever told anyone? For people who have suffered violent sexual crimes, proof—the very act of proving—is more than just a burden. It is boundless bearing. An eternity of futility.

It's you versus you." Meaning, you're the only thing standing in your own way.

The grief loosens its jaw from my neck but doesn't let go.

How can you go on living when you're now being lived in? When you've been invaded?

I'd grow extra mouths to swallow all his confusion and sorrow.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

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