Failure Quote by Joan Didion

“I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I…

— Joan Didion

“I made the best mistakes. It was not like the sun came up or I stopped crying or I had any more power within…

— Bonnie Huie

“All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea…

— Joan Didion

“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back…

— Hannah Blatchford

“I couldn't say anything. I could only think about how the world would be without light, without love. This had to stop. And I…

— Bin Userkaf

“I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals,…

— Alexis Hall

“There really was nothing firm, nothing certain. Even here, even at this place where he thought he’d found something permanent—everything could change in a…

— S.J. Kincaid

“The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be…

— Sarah Dessen

“I believed that work would save me, make me happy, solve my problems; that if I absolutely wore myself out, happiness would be waiting…

— Shauna Niequist

“Some things you just couldn't change, or transform, or wish away. Sometimes the path you were on only went one way. Sometimes, the truth…

— S.C. Langgle

“This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now…

— Susanna Kaysen

“I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all…

— Scott Turow