Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.

With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too.

History is merciless.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Truth can hurt so very much.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.

The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!