Determination Quote by John Varley

“Where she was admittedly a little self absorbed he was generous. Where she was an emotional box of rocks ,he was stable.”

— Karla Telega

“She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always…

— Erik Tomblin

“He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a…

— Cormac McCarthy

“His strong jaw line was clenched tight, and a pair of startingly cool green eyes picked her apart with scientific precision. There was something…

— Frankie Rose

“He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques,…

— Jeffrey Ford

“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than…

— Paul Bowles

“She couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, with the sense of his gaze reaching in, taking ahold of the shaking inside. He’d always had that power—the…

— Susan May Warren

“She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger…

— Frances Hardinge

“That wild, dangerous part of him. He knew now where it was running, and to whom. He could never have known that the one…

— Thea Harrison

“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination…

— Margaret Mitchell

“He wanted to stay so badly, in this place where he had begun to put violence down. In the place where he'd learned how…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers