Hard Lessons Quotes

“Ana never saw the rotten apples littering the ground as she continually reached for the rare golden apple on the tree. Ana had stepped in a lot of rotten apples in her lifetime. She should have learned by now.”
― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas

“I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.”
― Faith Hunter, Black Arts

“Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.”
― Helen Hodgman, Blue Skies & Jack and Jill

“Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...”
― Andrè Michael Pietroschek

“My advice is this……don’t text people on there day off. This is one that I had to learn the hard way”
― Elena Melanson

“Liam eventually added, "I don't want a war, but if it comes, yes; I want to see it."

My first impulse was to tell him, "no, he didn't want to see it," It was wrong of me to say though. He did want to see it. I think many people who haven't seen a war want to. It's not right to tell them they don't. What they don't want and don't know is that they don't want to have seen it. I know because I've seen bits and pieces of several.

I watched from a hilltop as a Roman legion met Picts. I tended some of the wounded out of Gettysburg. I even managed to screw up and go down the hill to drag French knights out of the mud at Agincor and I know I don't want to see another war. But I don't even want to have seen the ones I have been to. Here in Karvalen, I have seen a small war. More like a few major engagements in a larger campaign I suppose. Even so, the dead littered the battlefield like corn after a hailstorm. Wounded screamed their agony or cried in despair, those with the strength left. Some lay in pools of their own juices and gasped in short quick breaths. Fearing the last one would come all too soon. The mud was dirt and blood. The smell of guts and feces was thick in the sunshine and birds pecked at sightless eyes. That was victory.

I stared at my son and wondered how I could explain it. How could I make his sixteen year old mind comprehend.”
― Garon Whited, Void

“I knew better.
But
I chose worse.

Honey,
worse tore my ass up
better than my mama ever could.”
― Jasmine Farrell

“Patient gentle easy must learn, wise knows nothing”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Gentle patient easy must learn, wise knows nothing knowledge Google's”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Gentle patient easy must learn, wise knows nothing knowledge goggles”
― Ben Jr Grey