“Life is never the fairy tale they sold us on when we were kids. More often, it’s the nightmare we can never wake from. What they don’t tell us when we’re little is that the trick is to find the one who will be there in the middle of the night to hold us when we’re screaming and tell us that it’ll be all right. The one who doesn’t shirk or run from our nightmares, but who holds us through them and makes sure we never face them alone.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Are we not all a thousand characters in millions of plays throughout our lifetime?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“We do not repay mercy with murder. Kindness grows kindness, and you will reap the harvest of whatever seeds you sow.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“It's not enough that we voice good intentions. We must back them with action.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Who among us is not ever-changing? Ever evolving into someone new? Maybe someone better... or someone worse.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“objects can be fixed or replaced. But the feelings of loved ones are not so easily mended.” Thr”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Do you have any skills?” He gave her a cocky grin. “I’m particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room.” She”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Unamused, Ushara went to pull the kettle from the stove and pour the tea. “That’s beside the point. And you forget that we’re Andarion. We don’t like scars on our males. They’re hideous and gross.” As she turned back, she caught the hurt and stricken expression on Jullien’s face. Too late, she remembered how many scars lined his body. “Jules…”
Completely somber, he moved away from her. “I should be going. I have an early shift.”
“Jullien?” But it was too late. He was out of her home before she could apologize.
“Mum? What happened?”
Furious at herself for being so thoughtless, she cupped her son’s chin and sighed. “I accidentally hurt his feelings. I forgot that Jullien has a lot of scars that bother him.”
“How could you forget?”
“’Cause I don’t see them, Vas. They don’t matter to me.” She brushed the hair back to look at his brow and was about to take him to the doctor to have it stitched when she realized that Jullien had already done it. “He stitched you?”
Vas nodded. “He did it so fast, I barely felt it.”
She should have known that Jullien wouldn’t have left with it unfinished. Sighing, she kissed Vas’s bandage and hated that she’d hurt Jullien’s feelings. “Come on, honey. Let’s get you cleaned up and ready for bed.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Hatred is a blind and deaf, unreasoning beast that doesn’t stop to ask why it attacks. It simply slaughters everything in its path without mercy until there’s nothing left to salvage. It rots us from the inside out and leaves nothing of the host but an empty hollow shell incapable of compassion. It’s why you can’t let it take root. Once it starts to grow, it’s the hardest weed to prune. And just when you think you have it under control, it explodes and consumes you entirely. All it needs is one target, perfectly placed, and your soul is the price you pay for having courted that beast you thought you could keep caged. It’s the one beast we should never dare feed.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“Mmmm . . . can I plead LASI?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
“What have you gotten yourself into? You don't want to be involved with my sorry ass. I'm just not worth this kind of trouble.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Born of Legend
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“Our elders told us this was the best way to deal with white people. Be silent until they get nervous, then they will start talking. They will keep talking, and if you stay silent, they will say too much. Then you will be able to see into their hearts and know what they really mean. Then you will know what to do.” “I imagine it works,” I said.”
― Kent Nerburn, quote from Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all.
But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger.
Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together.
He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be.
He turned away, and the cycle began again.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, quote from The Princess and the Hound
“Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!"
Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Bliss
“You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,* for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”i 18 Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.”
― quote from St. Joseph New American Bible
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