Punishment Durable Quote by F. Sionil José

“You might think you have a really good reason, but nothing could be worth this. Nothing could be worth feeling this way. I feel…

— Melissa Albert

“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as…

— Nina Sankovitch

“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?…

— Ransom Riggs

“...it isn't a bad thing to remember that you have some wildness in you, that not every inch of your soul is honorable and…

— Brian Morton

“We've all felt a little incompetent, insufficient, overexposed, helpless, unlovable, terrified, defective, unfit and unsung at times. And deep down, for whatever reason, you…

— Anne Clendening

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle…

— Annie Dillard

“I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And…

— Martin Amis

“ I used myself, let nothing use me. Like being on a private dole, sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt. What life there…

— Adrienne Rich

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed…

— Sarah J. Maas

“I didn't want to let on how much firing the gun had effected me, but it had certainly turned my nuts into giant epcot…

— Ryan C. Thomas

“Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.”

— Alexandra Bracken