Quotes About Frustration

No wire hangers!!!

After that he would leave for a while, breaking things as he went, slamming doors to kick them open, picking up decanters to hurl at mirrors, detouring by way of chairs to smash them against the floor. Always when he came back he would sleep in their room, shutting the door against her. Rigid with self-pity she would lie in another room, wishing for the will to leave. Each believed the other a murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself.

It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly.

I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company.

arguing too loudly to hear him. He sometimes couldn't help

Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Most useless things in the world, men," she muttered as she sent her female slaves scurrying here and there. "They only get in one's way whenever anything important needs to be done.

My golf career was blessedly short. It lasted all of one class. Hit that tiny ball? Really? I shook my head as I studied the object on the tee. And I'm supposed to put it over where?

Had she not interrupted, EveLynn would have detailed every blasted piece of fabric in her possession. Unfortunately, she gets stuck on a track that derails her and won't allow her to roll to a halt.

I feel at the moment I can't complete, that I've become smug and pissy and I Haven't a sense of Humor.

Naturally, the air conditioner wasn't working. It seemed the only time it worked was in the winter when she didn't need it. Ditto for the heater, which seemed to work best in the summer.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent my hit a child--it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.