“Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”

“It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

“We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.”

“Hold your horses. I'm coming."…
"From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously."
The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.”

“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”

“Your faith has found no more air to breathe. And suffocation is a hard death.”

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”