“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”
“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits...not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tattoo is on my arm... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Hi,Bas."
"You want to hold him?" Tory asked.
Terrified at the mere thought, Styxx shook his hed."I might break him and piss off Acheron"
Tory and Bethany laughed.
"you can't break him, sweetie" Bethany said.
"I don't know. The lat time i held a child that age, I must break it 'cause it leaked all over me”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one …”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Life before toilet paper was not worth living.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“It was called love. The hardest thing in the world to find and keep, but the one thing that made the worst imaginable hell tolerable. More than hope, it was truly the light that guided the lost to safety and kept them sane in the midst of utter chaos.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“Even though Styxx was taller, Galen had carried him off the field of battle and held his hand the whole time they’d closed the wound. “Squeeze when it hurts, and don’t worry about breaking anything, Highness. Trust me, if my deceptively strong Thia wasn’t able to break it during her childbirths, there’s no damage you can do. And at least you’re not threatening to cut off my balls, fry them up, and feed them to me.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“I’m not afraid of them. Hits, I can take. After all, I was slapped on the ass the minute I was born, and not a damn thing has changed since.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“What’s the one thing you want more than any other, prince?”“My wife.”Dionysus rolled his eyes. “Okay, what’s the second thing you want?”“My son.”This time the god expelled a long exasperated breath. “Third? And if you name another family member, I will leave you here with Apollo, so help me, Zeus.”Sadly, Styxx had no other family to name and only one other thing he craved. “To die.”“Ah, you can be taught. Yah! And yeah, death. You kill Acheron and you die. I get to rule the world of man and everyone’s happy.” Hands on hips, Dionysus arched a brow. “So what do you say?”“I say get me the fuck out of here.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
“It's not fair!" (Ryssa)
Because life was ever about fairness.
Oh, to be as naive as his sister.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
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“Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, quote from The Message Remix (Bible in Contemporary Language)
“Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.”
― Norman Maclean, quote from Young Men and Fire
“Quanta.
On Yom Kippur Eve, the quanta went to ask Einstein for his forgiveness. “I'm not home,” Einstein yelled at them from behind his locked door. On their way back, people swore loudly at them through the windows, and someone even threw a can. The quanta pretended not to care, but deep in their hearts they were really hurt. Nobody understands the quanta, everybody hates them.
“You parasites,” people would shout at them as they walked down the road.
“Go serve in the army.”
“We wanted to, actually,” the quanta would try to explain, “but the army wouldn't take us because we're so tiny.” Not that anyone listened. Nobody listens to the quanta when they try to defend themselves, but when they say something that can be interpreted negatively, well, then everyone's all ears. The quanta can make the most innocent statement, like “Look, there's a cat!” and right away they're saying on the news how the quanta were stirring up trouble and they rush off to interview Schrödinger. All in all, the media hated the quanta worse than anybody, because once the quanta had spoken at an IBM press conference about how the very act of viewing had an effect on an event, and all the journalists thought the quanta were lobbying to keep them from covering the Intifada. The quanta could insist as much as they wanted that this wasn't at all what they meant and that they had no political agenda whatsoever, but nobody would believe them anyway. Everyone knew they were friends of the government's Chief Scientist.
Loads of people think the quanta are indifferent, that they have no feelings, but it simply isn't true. On Friday, after the program about the bombing of Hiroshima, they were interviewed in the studio in Jerusalem. They could barely talk. They just sat there facing the open mike and sniffling, and all the viewers at home, who didn't know the quanta very well, thought they were avoiding the question and didn't realize the quanta were crying What's sad is that even if the quanta were to write dozens of letters to the editors of all the scientific journals in the world and prove beyond a doubt that people had taken advantage of their naiveté, and that they'd never ever imagined it would end that way, it wouldn't do them any good, because nobody understands the quanta. The physicists least of all.”
― Etgar Keret, quote from The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
“Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson’s lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric “Brains” Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald “Big Ger” Cafferty Edinburgh’s preeminent gangster”
― Ian Rankin, quote from Resurrection Men
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