Certain Quote by Donna Tartt

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

— Cassandra Clare

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

— Edith Wharton

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey

“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more…

— Mona Simpson

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways…

— Sonya Hartnett

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people,…

— Nora Roberts

“She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on…

— Sage Steadman

“There was something of the beautiful failure about her.”

— Colum McCann

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”

— Robert Beatty

“She didn’t want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still—it would have been nice…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own…

— Paulo Coelho