Quotes About Patience

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

Tradition can be a dirty word, especially around Christmas. Families all over the globe get together and enjoy each other's company for all of a few minutes. For an hour, they endure each other. After that, they just manage to stomach each other.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM MAX VANDENBURG "Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it. We'll give him seven months. Then we come for him. And oh, how we come.

She waited for the suffocation of sleep.

God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers?

There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.

No irse: acto de confianza y amor, a menudo descifrado por los niños.

Liesel was tempted to ask her the meaning, but it never eventuated.

For a few moments, Liesel said nothing. It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges.

a letter to her for? You have to put up with her every day." Papa was schmunzel

One sat painfully now, among the falling chunks of rain, and the other stood next to her, waiting.

Orada duruyor, birinin bir ?eyler yapmas?n? bekliyordum ama sonunda bekledi?im ki?inin kendim oldu?unu anlam??t?m.

In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the stove, there's an image of a lonely, overworked typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits patiently upright in the assumed position. It wavers slightly in the breeze from the window. Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper, the height of a human stands casually by the door. It could easily be smoking.

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on earth, it's true for the vast majority—that death waits for no man—and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

There was one thing that would never change. It was impossible to be angry at him for long.

She was the book thief without words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.

They accumulated, hour by hour, like sweet and sour dreams, waiting to happen.

You don't always get what you wish for.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

They waited for the clouds to disappear, and when they did, they could see the rest of the forest. It wouldn't stop growing, she explained. But neither would this. The young man looked at the branch that held his hand. He had a point.

you could set your watch to those hoofbeats, too, and your life to the hand of Tommy—as he led the mule fondly home, to the months and the girl to come.