“Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“I like to think that Irving is somewhere chasing angelic speedboats, or maybe he’s got his own wings. Surely, even God needs a laugh now and then, and Irving is a funny guy, for a monster.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for the lost Girl Scout troop. We found them asleep, drugged with music. They were curled around a sign that said, “No All-Female Groups Beyond This Point. Satyr Breeding Area.” Satyrs have a peculiar sense of humor. I”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“Susan is happy off on another project to save yet another endangered creature. But I miss Irving, and though Susan would laugh at me probably, I like to think that Irving is somewhere chasing angelic speedboats, or maybe he’s got his own wings. Surely, even God needs a laugh now and then, and Irving is a funny guy, for a monster.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“For you, and your so-firm faith, God bless. For my faith, blessed be.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“But Jasmine knew that everyone was evil, down deep when you scrape the skin away. Inside their heads everyone hunted, everyone killed, everyone was a monster.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
“It was one of those moments when you can look in someone else’s eyes and see your own reflection so sharp and true that it slices like glass.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Strange Candy
Laurell K. Hamilton
Born place: in Heber Springs, Arkansas, The United States
Born date February 19, 2018
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“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey for their sole delight. They have no feeling that any result which might flow from their action should concern them. They have no conception of the necessity of a well-organized society wherein all shall accept a certain quota of responsibility and all realize a reasonable amount of happiness. They think only of themselves because they have not yet been taught to think of society. For them pain and necessity are the great taskmasters. Laws are but the fences which circumscribe the sphere of their operations. When, after error, pain falls as a lash, they do not comprehend that their suffering is due to misbehavior. Many such an individual is so lashed by necessity and law that he falls fainting to the ground, dies hungry in the gutter or rotting in the jail and it never once flashes across his mind that he has been lashed only in so far as he has persisted in attempting to trespass the boundaries which necessity sets. A prisoner of fate, held enchained for his own delight, he does not know that the walls are tall, that the sentinels of life are forever pacing, musket in hand. He cannot perceive that all joy is within and not without. He must be for scaling the bounds of society, for overpowering the sentinel. When we hear the cries of the individual strung up by the thumbs, when we hear the ominous shot which marks the end of another victim who has thought to break loose, we may be sure that in another instance life has been misunderstood--we may be sure that society has been struggled against until death alone would stop the individual from contention and evil.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
― Kevin Wilson, quote from The Family Fang
“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”
― Markus Zusak, quote from Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“My choice", he'd whispered, taking her hand. "Mine. Not theirs.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Deep Blue
“Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
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