Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.


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Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]
MOTTO
Per aspera ad Astra.
SENECA
Ad astra [To the stars]
MOTTO
The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
'Yes, alw...
RUTA SEPETYS
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA
Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.
RUTA SEPETYS
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora...
CHRISTOPH CELLARIUS (KELLER)
'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like ...
SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI
We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have ...
RUTA SEPETYS
We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.
RUTA SEPETYS
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket wat...
RUTA SEPETYS
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.
RUTA SEPETYS
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing s...
RUTA SEPETYS
I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.
RUTA SEPETYS
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music,...
RUTA SEPETYS
Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
RUTA SEPETYS
Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost.
RUTA SEPETYS
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that someh...
RUTA SEPETYS
We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one an...
RUTA SEPETYS
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the...
RUTA SEPETYS
He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his...
RUTA SEPETYS
You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
RUTA SEPETYS
What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.
RUTA SEPETYS
Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a ti...
RUTA SEPETYS
Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage...
RUTA SEPETYS
But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said.
"We know us,...
RUTA SEPETYS
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
RUTA SEPETYS
But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck ...
RUTA SEPETYS
How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to los...
RUTA SEPETYS
...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.
RUTA SEPETYS
His smugness was annoying. This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead ...
RUTA SEPETYS
The old man spoke of nothing but shoes. He spoke of them with such love and emotion that a woman in ...
RUTA SEPETYS
The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly ...
RUTA SEPETYS
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within u...
RUTA SEPETYS
I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.<...
RUTA SEPETYS
All the little duckies with their heads in the water
Heads in the water
All the little duc...
RUTA SEPETYS
He was beautiful.
The knight was beautiful,handsome when he smiled.
He didn’t want anyo...
RUTA SEPETYS
What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collectiv...
RUTA SEPETYS
Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars.
JAMES PATTERSON
I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
LALLA WARD
We pay based upon on ratings. As the audience grows, we pay more per ad.
JACK MILLER
God tests His people through hardship.
JOHN PIPER
Poverty simpy means passing through the hardship road,just to become wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g...
, "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS"
You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.
SARAH J. MAAS
Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the s...
BROM
Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 God does not lead His children around hardship,...
OTTO DIBELIUS
Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's che...
RICK RIORDAN
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T
Through struggle to the stars.
ANON.
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and im...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

"Oh, I was. I was flying past t...
ROALD DAHL
Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I of...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually eve...
MICHAEL MOORE
I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
LEIGH BARDUGO
To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would n...
DAVID FOSTER
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from...
ZHANG XIN
Even though billions of dollars have been spent on other ad slogans, somehow 'Have it Your Way' cont...
RUSS KLEIN
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs...
LAURA HILLENBRAND
I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said.
"I know, ...
APRILYNNE PIKE
He'll say, 'Papa, they can't tackle me,'
LORENZO LYNCH
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It'...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Stree...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them...
MARJANE SATRAPI
Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. JULIE GARWOOD If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing wi...
PENN JILLETTE
You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down...
SARAH J. MAAS
It is only a great mind that will go through hardship in life,but will want to make life easier for ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d...
SOUMEN BASU
Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
The nationwide average could easily push through $2.50 per gallon this week.
TOM KLOZA
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you g...
GERMANY KENT
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN
A monster. I despise my true form. (Acheron)
I can’t imagine why. Other than killing me, you ...
SHERRILYN KENYON
What are those people doing?" Jenna whispered to me.
"I don't know," I replied through a froze...
RACHEL HAWKINS
J.D. feels good. He's a proud papa.
GRADY LITTLE
If Argentina can make it through the weekend, I see the real steady at around 1.7 or 1.71 per dollar...
DINIZ PIGNATARI
He paused for a minute and I could feel him trembling. “I love you,” he whispered against my ski...
KRISTEN MIDDLETON
But they didn't get a sponsor, and the best quote they could get from anybody was Papa John's $5.50 ...
DAN PEARSON
I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON
Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO
Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
IRWIN REDLENER
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always goin...
ANGIE MARTINEZ
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
EPICTETUS
They're out of contact now; their cell phones may not be working there. When we get into the trenche...
BILL PYLE
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant a...
NELSON MANDELA
He would want to see the '47 Holy Cross team, ... They would want to see Papa.
JIM CALHOUN
Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps, Mortals are all asleep bel...
JOHN PETER HEBEL
”(…) spesso sto davanti a me stesso come davanti a un estraneo, quando in ore tranquille un e...
ERIC MARIA REMARQUE
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.
TUPAC SHAKUR
Be strong, I whispered to my WiFi signal.
ANONYMOUS
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate -...
COLIN FARRELL
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the n...
MARKUS ZUSAK
the hardship and oppression of others.
GEORGE W BUSH
Hope is the discipline of hardship.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in t...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD
I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
GARY CLARK, JR.
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK
The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE

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We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.
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But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck ...
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His smugness was annoying. This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead ...
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The old man spoke of nothing but shoes. He spoke of them with such love and emotion that a woman in ...
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The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
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The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly ...
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What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within u...
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