“The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Can you keep a secret?”
“Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“…life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it’ll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you’ll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you’ll know that you beat that mountain, and that you rule it. It does not rule you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“I know you are hurting. Believe me, I know how it feels to get your emotional teeth kicked down your throat so far that it makes you choke on the last shred of your dignity. That sick feeling in your gut that tells you, you can´t take it anymore. That life sucks hard and it won´t ever get better. That you´re walking on the tightrope, trying to hang on with your toes ´cause you ain´t got no safety net, and you´re barely one sneeze away from being a stain on the floor. But you´re not alone. You´re not. You´ve got a lot of people who care about you. People who love you and who would be devastated if something ever happened to you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Total evil.
dang, his principal had been right all along...
he really was demonspawn.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Life isn't a puzzle to be solved. It's an adventure to be savored.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
“who could blame her for that? he personally couldn't think of any woman who would welcome that news. Hey hon, guess what? your son that you nurtured in your body for nine months and then sacrificed your life and dignity to raise is destined to end th world. Aren't you proud?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infamous
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“Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him
up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk
thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the
intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter.
This is lynch mob laughter.
How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know?”
― Irvine Welsh, quote from Trainspotting
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
― Sophocles, quote from Antigone
“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Words of Radiance
“He had not opened his eyes in the moment. Her touch had released some tiny increment of the poison bound up in him that would, days to come, ripen into sorrow. And by the time he thought all this he could no longer tell if her caress had truly happened or whether he'd manufactured it out of necessity.”
― David Wroblewski, quote from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“Much of Chinese society still expected its women to hold themselves in a sedate manner, lower their eyelids in response to men's stares, and restrict their smile to a faint curve of the lips which did not expose their teeth. They were not meant to use hand gestures at all. If they contravened any of these canons of behavior they would be considered 'flirtatious." Under Mao, flirting with./bre/gners was an unspeakable crime.
I was furious at the innuendo against me. It had been my Communist parents who had given me a liberal upbringing.
They had regarded the restrictions on women as precisely the sort of thing a Communist revolution should put an end to. But now oppression of women joined hands with political repression, and served resentment and petty jealousy.
One day, a Pakistani ship arrived. The Pakistani military attache came down from Peking. Long ordered us all to spring-clean the club from top to bottom, and laid on a banquet, for which he asked me to be his interpreter, which made some of the other students extremely envious. A few days later the Pakistanis gave a farewell dinner on their ship, and I was invited. The military attache had been to Sichuan, and they had prepared a special Sichuan dish for me. Long was delighted by the invitation, as was I. But despite a personal appeal from the captain and even a threat from Long to bar future students, my teachers said that no one was allowed on board a foreign ship.
"Who would take the responsibility if someone sailed away on the ship?" they asked. I was told to say I was busy that evening.
As far as I knew, I was turning down the only chance I would ever have of a trip out to sea, a foreign meal, a proper conversation in English, and an experience of the outside world.
Even so, I could not silence the whispers. Ming asked pointedly, "Why do foreigners like her so much?" as though there was something suspicious in that. The report filed on me at the end of the trip said my behavior was 'politically dubious."
In this lovely port, with its sunshine, sea breezes, and coconut trees, every occasion that should have been joyous was turned into misery. I had a good friend in the group who tried to cheer me up by putting my distress into perspective. Of course, what I encountered was no more than minor unpleasantness compared with what victims of jealousy suffered in the earlier years of the Cultural Revolution. But the thought that this was what my life at its best would be like depressed me even more.
This friend was the son of a colleague of my father's.
The other students from cities were also friendly to me. It was easy to distinguish them from the students of peasant backgrounds, who provided most of the student officials.”
― Jung Chang, quote from Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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