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Quotes About Frustration

But I couldn't just be angry at her. Obviously I wanted to scream at her and set her whole enclave on fire, but that was just habit.
~ Naomi Novik
then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I
~ Naomi Novik
No one had made her talk to me, or be in my company. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to the trouble just to be unpleasant.
~ Naomi Novik
Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail.
~ Naomi Novik
Then she'd straightened up and announced in irritation, "I've fallen out of time," before vanishing in a great cloud of smoke.
~ Naomi Novik
I hated him and his silence ferociously: I knew he was only letting me convince myself there was nothing to be done.
~ Naomi Novik
I wanted to scream, to weep. I wanted to drag my hand across the world and wipe it.
~ Naomi Novik
I don't know if anyone who hasn't tried it can properly appreciate just how horrible it is to be constantly surrounded by people who believe in absolutely everything
~ Naomi Novik
But my father's irritation told me otherwise. I had been a disappointment to him from the beginning, my mother having taken an excessive number of years to produce me, and shortly afterwards miscarrying the overdue son and dying with him.
~ Naomi Novik
But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.
~ Naomi Novik
But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.
~ Naomi Novik
it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.
~ Naomi Novik
It annoyed me more and not less because I didn't have a good reason for being annoyed. I couldn't even come up with anything to say about it.
~ Naomi Novik
Aad kon behoorlijk verhit raken als ze geïrriteerd was, en als er ooit een onderdeel 'razernij' aan de Olympische Spelen wordt toegevoegd, ben ik de grote favoriet voor goud.
~ Naomi Novik
But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thinf at once, I would do nothing forever.
~ Naomi Novik
anything like her, and that the means mattered as much as the ends, but that wasn't any help; I already knew. I was just angry.
~ Naomi Novik
I could almost have felt sorry for Jermaine, who'd worn the expression of a person trying to have an important conversation with a brick wall.
~ Naomi Novik
Theory is the practice of the impotent.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
digo. Se va y uno se cree a salvo, pero siempre vuelve, siempre vuelve... y nos ahoga. Yo lo veo todos los días en el instituto. Válgame Dios. Simios es lo que llegan a las aulas. Darwin era un soñador, se lo aseguro. Ni evolución ni niño muerto. Por cada uno que razona, tengo que lidiar con nueve orangutanes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Al encontrar la puerta con el cartel de CERRADO, empezó a golpear el cristal con los puños. Fermín y Daniel intercambiaron una mirada. - Para que luego digan que en este país la gente no tiene ganas de comprar libros.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nunca seria mio, le habia perdido antes de empezar
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dunces and blockheads live in a state of perpetual envy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I threw up my breakfast, my dinner, and a good amount of the anger I was carrying with me.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We'll get to the adult by having recourse to his frustration. As life advances and we have to give up the hopes, dreams, and desires of our youth, we acquire a growing sense of being a victim of the world and of other people. There is always someone else to blame for our misfortunes or failures, someone we wish to exclude. Embracing a doctrine that will turn this grudge and this victim mentality into something positive provides comfort and strength.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon