Failure Quote by Paula McLain

“Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Life was all about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I wasn't sure what my path would be, but I knew I didn't want to be like any of them. Each, in their own…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

“It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly…

— James Lileks

“As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for trouble. We just tried like hell to get out of…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I didn't know how to live my life, and suddenly I was thrust into it and had no choice but to live it.”

— Paullina Simons

“It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do…

— Michael Wolff

“I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along…

— Joyce Maynard

“I tell none how to live their life, yet I advise some on how not to waste it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.”

— Kate Atkinson

“I loved them, and would always love them. But there was no place where they could fit anymore, so I had nowhere to put…

— Nick Hornby