Harder Quotes - Page 32

• I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

  Gena Showalter

  Temptation, Secret, Admitting

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.138, Harlequin

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• Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Depth, Done, Favors

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• A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

  P.B. Kerr

  Wish, Dishes, Fishes

  P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

  Robin McKinley

  Feet, Elbows, Weight

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• The higher up, the harder the fall.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fall, Smugness, Higher

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.

  Robin Parrish

  Moving, Magic, World

  Robin Parrish (2007). “Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)”, p.199, Baker Books

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• I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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• If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

  Kristin Cashore

  Memories, Fire, Persons

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.103, Penguin

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• I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

  William P. Young

  Motivation, Struggle, Feelings

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• Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Powerful, Sadness, Foe

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• Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

  John Marsden

  Book, Thinking, Feelings

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• Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

  James Patterson

  Silly, Sleep, Dna

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• Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

  Nalini Singh

  Tired, Cutting, Flames

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.727, Penguin

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• Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sometimes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.218, Cambridge University Press

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• And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Apology, Impossible

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1397, Simon and Schuster

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• For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

  Juliet Marillier

  Found You, Choices, Waiting

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Henry Rollins (1997). “The First Five: Collected Work, 1983-1987”, 2 13 61

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• Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

  Matthew Quick

  Life, Children, Different Experiences

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.127, Sarah Crichton Books

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• Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're hitting me. " "That's a ridiculous metaphor. " "And, " he added, "you aren't aiming for my face. " "I don't want to leave a mark!" "Well, at the rate we're going, there's no danger of that, " he muttered

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Doors, Hitting

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• Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Relationship, Hurt

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• In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Grateful, Mean, Simple

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• Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Responsibility, Cold

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1993). “A Woman of Substance: Act of Will”

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• I’m sorry, Eve. I love you. I’m not letting you do this.” She screamed and battered harder. “You love me? You asshole! Let me go!

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Love You, Let Me Go

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.112, Penguin

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• Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Knowing, Decision

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• All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

  Josh Lanyon

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “Fair Game”, p.112, Carina Press

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