Happiness Quote by Emma Donoghue

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don’t go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without…

— Robert Goolrick

“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”

— Gyula Krúdy

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so that she could see the stars. They always eased her lonesomeness. She…

— Kristin Cashore

“Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.”

— T.A. Barron

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have…

— Henry James

“And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising…

— Veronica Rossi

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.”

— David Maine