Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.