Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.
Friends don't count the cost of favors.
You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.