The Hidden City Quotes

“Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“But if she could somehow manage to be strong at the right time, at the right minute, if that was all the grace that was allowed her—that would be enough. Had to be.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“Judge what you have to judge. Change what you need to change. “If you don’t deserve it now, earn it.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“What use mistakes if not to learn from them? What use learning if, in the end, one clung to the old?”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“Now,” she countered, “is all we have. All we can be certain we have.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“You’ll learn, girl. These aren’t scars. They’re nothing. The scars you carry with you? The ones that never leave? They’re all in here.” She’d tapped her chest. “Regret,” she said softly, “for the things you didn’t do. Or the things you couldn’t do. They haunt you enough, and you see things like this,” and she put her hand to her neck, “and they mean nothing.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“Trying,” he said at last, “is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It’s how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It’s the successes that you’re known for—but it’s the failures make you what you are.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“If pride is a sin, I am still a creature of sin.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City

“The hardest thing to figure out is what will make you happy.”
― Michelle West, The Hidden City