"There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be."

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Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.724, Penguin

Laurell K. Hamilton

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Missing Quotes

“Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.”
“The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.”
“Iâ€™ve been thinking Iâ€™d like to be Daisy; Iâ€™d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”
“I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality”
“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
“I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.”
“The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.”

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