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It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pain, Past, Sight
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

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Inspirational, Life, Motivational

It can be stolen, but never bought. It can be given, but never taken. It can be stepped on, but cannot walk . It can fly, but has no wings. It can sing, but has no voice. It can be broken, but still it work s. It can be left, even while it follows. And though it’s easily commanded, it can never, ever be demanded.

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Taken, Wings, Voice

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

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Black And White, Our World, Evil
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

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Trust, Betrayal, Suffering
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

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Trying, Drowning
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.206, Macmillan

Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you." - Bride

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Hurt, Hate, Love You
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.2590, Macmillan

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hurt, Mistake, Past
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.119, Macmillan

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.

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Hurt, Heart, Cutting

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.

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Average, Ideas, People
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin

Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)

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Art, Dragons, Be Kind

We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

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Kindness, War, Heart
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.71, Macmillan

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

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Moving Forward, Journey, Light
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)

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Father, Moving, Past
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.172, Macmillan

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

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People, Good Intentions, Moments
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.298, Macmillan

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.

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Mistake, Want, Shows
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.632, St. Martin's Griffin

We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.

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Home, Boys, Unhappy
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.58, Macmillan

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

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Emotion, Easy, Intention
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.645, Macmillan

Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is for you to see me for what I really am. No one wants to believe that some people are willing to help others out of the goodness of their hearts because they can’t stand to see someone suffer. So few people are altruistic that they can’t understand or conceive that anyone else in the world could ever put someone else’s good above their own. (Leta)

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Believe, Heart, Helping Others

It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me!

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Middle Finger, Muscles, Fingers

Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.

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Doors, Enemy, Storm
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.338, Macmillan

We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bad Day, Choices, Forever

How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius)

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Dog, Children, Nice
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.20, St. Martin's Paperbacks

Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)

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Knives, Bird, House

Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Art, Heart, My Heart
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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