Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Success and failure go hand in hand.

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

It's an awful risky thing to live

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Trust not one night's ice.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.