Quotes about Struggle

As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world... When children are ailing or babies refuse to be born, when men are unfaithful, when the sky is empty of rain, when the amulets buried beneath holy wall upon instructions of the minim offer not solace and all entreaties to the priests for guidance fail, when the rituals they offer bring no comfort and no consolation, they come to us.

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

Hard times make for simple minds.

She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.

You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.

No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.