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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

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

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

Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Daughter, Past, Stupidity

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Decisions You Make, Decision
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.140, St. Martin's Paperbacks

I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hurt, Love You, Past

Well, then, if I admit I know who you are and really couldn’t care less will that assuage your damaged manhood enough that we can get past this and move on to something that ends with your giving me a sandwich? (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Moving, Past, Giving

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mistake, Moving, Past
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.236, Macmillan

She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Army, Boys, Past
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.29, Macmillan

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Scar, Souvenirs
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.115, Macmillan

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Stones, Today
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series”, p.160, Hachette UK

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. "Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nice, Past, Would Be
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.43, Macmillan

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Life Is, Easy
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.119, Macmillan

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lying, Past, Your Future

Here we are. Maybe I should warn you before we enter...(Asmodeus) (Jericho stepped past him and threw open the door.) Or maybe not. Let’s just barge in and be surprised, shall we? (Asmodeus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Doors, Asmodeus
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.76, St. Martin's Paperbacks

Don’t let the past ruin your future. (Acheron) Meaning what, oh great Yoda? (Kyrian) You take care of the kid. I’ll take care of your patrol tonight. I could use the target practice. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kids, Past, Practice

In our past lies our future. By our own hands and decisions we will be damned and we will be saved. Whatever you do, put forth your best effort even if all you're doing is chasing a never ending rainbow. You might never reach the end of it, but along the way you'll meet people who will mean the world to you and make me...mories that will keep you warm on even the coldest nights

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lying, Mean, Past

I never lied to you. (Kiara) Of course you did –you said you could see the real us– that we weren’t as bad as we claimed. But you didn’t and, just like everyone else, so long as we risk our lives to protect and save you, we’re okay. But the moment we have to make a choice not ours, the moment you see what our pasts have made us, you’re horrified by the truth and hate us for it like we had some kind of choice in what we are. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hate, Real, Past

I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Humans
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.60, Macmillan

What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It’s so not like me, but I couldn’t help myself. It was just like that weird magnetic force that grabs me when I’m walking past the Frostbyte Café and makes me swerve in to get a triple scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. The power of temptation was just too much, Selena. I couldn’t resist it. He was a Chunky Monkey container and all I could think was, ‘Someone give me a spoon.’ (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sunshine, Thinking, Past

Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher’s, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Twenties, Months
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.206, Macmillan

I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Brother, Past, I Can
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Alethea Kontis (2007). “The Dark-Hunter Companion”, p.418, Macmillan

Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is." -Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pain, Past, Gone
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.214, Macmillan

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Yesterday, Gone
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.125, Macmillan

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it’s making peace with yourself.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Past, Your Past, Hardest
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.8768, Macmillan

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