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Quotes About Frustration

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
No I am not all right!" Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. "I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I'm tired out and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I can't wear thethe ! I want my thtwipey oneth !
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out! Despair! Anguish! Horror!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I'm a failure! Garbage! You just never stop to think.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Honestly, David, sometimes when they all start I don't know whether to scream or just walk out into the sunset. [...] - Why don't you do both? Walk into the sunset screaming?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.
~ Diane Ackerman
Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!
~ Diane Ackerman
They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.
~ Diane Ackerman
Few things are begun with as much hope as a garden, and it can disappoint in direct proportion to one's anticipation.
~ Diane Ackerman
Much of what she found charming and refreshing about him at the outset of their relationship now bugged the hell out of her.
~ Unknown
but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
~ Diane Setterfield
but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. My
~ Diane Setterfield
We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.
~ Dick Couch
Stifling hope is a hopeless business.
~ Dick Francis
I do a job which I ought to find satisfying, and it leaves me bored and empty. A diet of milk and honey, when you have teeth, he observed.
~ Dick Francis
Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.
~ Dodie Smith
You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach. I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
~ Dodie Smith
she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare.
~ Dodie Smith
I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more they utterly elude me.
~ Dodie Smith
I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.
~ Dodie Smith