You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

— ,Y por qué tuvo que elegir precisamente a Alzbeta? —gritó el médico jefe.—Precisamente porque no había ningún motivo. Si hubiera algún motivo, podríaencontrarse de antemano y mi actitud podría determinarse de antemano. Precisamente en...

Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why,...

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King’s Carrie was rejected 30 times. Gone With The Wind was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

People are only human. They let there emotions get the best of them sometimes. It’s a weakness.Some can’t handle rejection without reaction So when you say “No” it burns some people who are in high...

I’ve learned to not let rejection bother me. How can it bother me, when all the people who’ve rejected me have been murdered, and their bodies smartly disposed of?

One day, maybe not so long from now, you’ll get to know how it feels.” So you’re waiting, even if you don’t quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really...

They saw me. Milton’s smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease...

Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You’re at a party. The popular girls are there. You know you can never be as cool as...

Here’s what I think: it’s one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it’s an entirely different thing when it arrives.

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

You want me to wear a condom?!

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I’d ever experienced–the teachers who’d looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn’t like me back. Around...

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation...

We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you’re older, when you know better, when you’ve learned. Only no one wants to...

Rejection is a challenge.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who...

It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself....

When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic...

Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!” the encouraged blacksmith said and pressed her to him with the intention of snatching a kiss; but Oksana withdrew her cheeks, which were a very short distance...

There are three certainties in a writer’s life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung...

Love is like a door—it’s either open or closed. Either that or it’s both—open to others, but closed to you.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke...

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.

Submit your story the same way you submit your heart. Let it break. Bruise it up. Let it get pummeled and sore and when you can’t take it anymore, throw it out there again.