Quotes of: Hard-lesson Keyword

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

A Long Way Down

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Life of Pi

It’s hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

The Last Song

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories

The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.

Low Town

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

The Love of the Last Tycoon

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

The Lucy Variations

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Little Women

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

My Antonia

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

The Mark of Athena

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn’t slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there’s nothing left. Then what?

Salvation

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

Something More Than Night

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Snuff

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

School's Out—Forever

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

The music had me intoxicated. The alcohol had me drunk. I partied so hard I threw up, and in a moment of nauseousness I vowed to never listen to music again.

Sleepwalking is restercise

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

A Storm of Swords