Hard time Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
““First of all, you don’t want me to get too hungry. Ever. I’m an ever worse bastard than normal and having starved for centuries, I’m not about to deprive myself again when I don’t have to. Second, let me tell you something about your ‘friends.’ Deimos held me down while I was branded and then took me to the human realm where I was left with nothing. No clothes, no money. Not a damn thing to call my own. Hence the aforementioned starvation. A hundred years later, M’Ordant dumped my inside a Spartan prison camp and told the commander I was a traitor to their people. You don’t really want to know what the Spartans did to people they thought betrayed them. D’Alerian had me put inside a Turkish prison in the fifteenth century where I was impaled after being tortured for three weeks. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time feeling too sorry for them right now. At least no one’s shoving a sharp spike up their asses. (Jericho)””
About This Quote
Source Novel: Dark-Hunter series, The Darkest Night, 2015
The speaker explains a lifelong pattern of suffering and betrayal, making it hard to feel empathy for others now.
In simple terms: Past trauma reduces current compassion.
Acknowledge past wounds but seek healing.
Themes
Mood
Type
When to use this quote
- recovering from abuse
- building trust
- self‑compassion
- support groups
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- How does past suffering shape present attitudes?
- Can one feel empathy while still wounded?
Healing may be slow and requires confronting painful memories.