Laurell K Hamilton
- How Revolutions Begin
I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose. We were trying to save our country. I was betting the other Masters of the City wouldn't believe we were saving anything but ourselves, and patriot wouldn't be what they called us.
Laurell K Hamilton
- Darkness
To who has stood at my side and looked into the abyss and found both charm, attraction, and love, for we are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation, but still thinks puppies are really cute.
A H Hadley - Rebellious Royals
- I will be good
I won't hurt people. I will make myself understand their pain. I will feel for them, and I will have a good heart. I will love - in all the ways a person can. I will love the strangers, the friends, the enemies, and everything else. I will be a good queen, but to do that, I have to stop avoiding it. And that means accepting that this sucks.
A H Hadley
- Real Strength
Not all monsters come with claws; not all heroes wear crowns. Sometimes, the best allies are the ones you were taught should be your enemies. But real strength? That's choosing who you stand beside - even when traditions tell you not to.
Gergory Maguire
- Elphie
Memory and history codify perception, but in real life nobody ever really knows what anyone else is thinking. Nothing stands still. Here comes the moth in the tapestry, the hammer against the marble entabulature. The upset.
Laurell K Hamilton
- Love just because
There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
Azriona
- Soulmates - What I Forgot to Tell You
That's the part that most people don't understand. They think a soulmate is your other half, the person who is going to complete you. They think when they find their soulmate, that everything will be easy, that the world will suddenly settle down around them, that the path ahead will be clear and simple, without obstruction or confusion. That's not exactly true. A soulmate can't make life run smooth. They're just the one who is going to hold tightest during the tricky bits.
Spike - BTVS
- I have seen you, and I love you
All these years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you - it has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength, I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are.
A H Hadley
- Children are not punishment
Children are not punishment. They aren't repercussions or duties. Children are people, who come with all the complications of a small person who is completely reliant on another.
Laurell K Hamilton
- Unsociable
If we ever were going to cohabitate, he'd have to know the truth. I was unsociable and food was something you ate so you wouldn't die. I decided to do what I'd have done if he hadn't been here, sort of. I really disliked the feeling of being uncomfortable in my own home.
Laurell K Hamilton
- Crying - The Laughing Corpse
Crying was damned unfair in a fight. Once a person started to cry, you couldn't talk anymore. You suddenly just wanted them to stop crying, stop hurting, stop making you feel like the biggest scum-bucket in the world. Anything to stop the tears.
Anonymous
- The Void
Beware to gaze long into the void, for the void will gaze back into you. The void will cry out a meow for this void wants food. Feed your void and give it pets.
K. I. Peirce
- Hormones
I attacked my pesky hormones as I'd attacked all my other problems - head on and with little thought to societal expectations or conventional Christian values.
K. I. Peirce
- Staring Competition
I might be tied to an operating table in a spaceship presumably hurtling through outer space faster than the speed of light. I might be completely at their mercy. But there's no way I'm complying with my captors' commands, even if it means I'm stuck in the universe's most petty staring competition with an alien of a species that, for all I know never blinks.
Hazbin Hotel - Andrew Underberg
- If Hell is Forever
To think that I admired you, well, I don't need your condescension. I'm not a child to protect. Was talk of virtue just pretension? Was I too naive to expect you to heed the morals you're purveying? If Hell is forever, then Heaven must be a lie. If angels can do whatever, and remain in the sky. The rules are shades of gray when you don't do as you say; when you make the wretched suffer just to kill them again.
Jorge Rivera-Herrans
- Not Sorry for Loving You
So if I pushed you. Or if I came on too strong. Or if I ambushed you, for that, I'll say I was wrong. And if you hate me then I am sorry my love's too much for you. But I'm not sorry for loving you.
Catrina Bell
- Hot Button Issue - Book Quote
His staff surround him, people I've worked with, people I thought I liked. They fidget, clearly uncomfortable. Their gazes shift from the senator to the police and the protesters growing more unruly by that moment. But they just stand there. They do nothing to help. And that's when it hits me. I'm just like them. Frozen. Afraid... And even though I'm here, I hid in the shadows. I have no sign. I have no voice. I'm still complicit. Not anymore.
Alethea Faust
- By Your Side
Trauma is a part of life. No matter how we guard ourselves against it, we all will suffer through pain and hardship. But the ones who stay by your side through the difficulties will be the ones who make that weight easier to bear.
A H Hadley
- Falling in Love
You think I wanted to fall in love with a gladiator?... You think we get to pick? You think they wanted this? If you consider either man your friend, then stop and think about how hard it must be. Connal keeps telling me that he isn't much of a man, and yet he's done nothing but protect all of us in his own way. How is that different from what you do.
A H Hadley
- Befriend the Monsters
There's nothing wrong with living in the shadows. It's where the monsters hide. Befriend them, because there's nothing more powerful than realizing you have the power to write your own destiny.
