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Quotes About Frustration

You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.
~ Sarah Monette
Well fuck me sideways 'til I cry
~ Sarah Monette
Rebuff and rejection, and I know I was far too tired to deal with him without making things worse.
~ Sarah Monette
I'd seen the way he watched Felix when he thought nobody was paying attention, and it was the kind of look that makes your skin crawl. He laid traps for Felix, too, cunning things that Felix waltzed right out of without seeming to see. Sometimes you could almost hear Lord Shannon's teeth grinding.
~ Sarah Monette
Mildmay's anger was like a third person sitting between us-which was all the more unfortunate as there was barely room for two.
~ Sarah Monette
I already told you, you're not my type." "I thought you didn't have a type." "I probably shouldn't. Given how long it is since I had sex, my type should just be anyone with a penis and pulse, right?
~ Sarah Morgan
The words used to drive me into secret rages, because on the one hand I wanted desperately to live up to my own reputation for cleverness, and on the other it seemed very unfair, that that cleverness, which I had never asked for, could be turned into something with which to cut me down.
~ Sarah Waters
She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt—they could kiss, make love, do anything at all—and the world indulged them. Whereas she and Julia—
~ Sarah Waters
I don't want to understand you,' I say tiredly. 'I wish you would not speak at all.
~ Sarah Waters
I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere.
~ Sarah Waters
Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?
~ Sarah Waters
Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 Televisions and 100 Radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.
~ Sarah Young
After a woman understands that she does have something called AD/HD and has had it for a long time, she begins to look back and see how deeply it has affected every area of her life. At this point she will often move into the next stage—anger. She often feels anger at lost opportunities, looking back at the paths that she didn't take. She focuses on the point at which things started to go off course and begins to feel anger at a system that let her down as a child.
~ Sari Solden, MS
I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself
~ Sarra Manning
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.
~ Sarra Manning
How is dear Charlotte?' Celia asked sweetly, then launched into an account of how they'd been having their usual 'Fucking shut up', 'No, you fucking shut up', row a couple of evenings ago, when Yuri had opened the front door of their flat to scream up the stairs, 'Why don't both of you fucking shut up?
~ Sarra Manning
One taste wasn't enough. You couldn't just give a girl a glimpse of a better life and slam the door in her face.
~ Sarra Manning
I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.
~ Sasha Sokolov
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.
~ Saul David Alinsky
Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke.
~ Scot Gardner
The sounds were trapped in the tank with him. His fingers pawed at the wet plastic but could find no hold.
~ Scot Gardner
As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
~ Scott Adams
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
~ Scott Adams