Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

Memories are worse than bullets.

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.