Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

I've picked up a few scars during games.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.