Quotes About Self-preservation

How did you learn to stop crying? (Leta) I nailed my heart shut and learned to stop caring about anyone except me. They can't make you cry when you don't give a shit about them or their opinions. You can only be hurt by the ones you love. (Aiden)

you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me

Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I'd take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)

I could do without your sarcasm. (Kat) And I could do without your bleeding heart. (Xypher) Just remember, my bleeding heart is what gained you a shot at freedom. (Kat) Queenie, it was a bleeding heart that put me in that position to begin with. The person I was trying to protect when I was taken didn't return the favor. The bitch was only using me. So take my advice: whatever compassion you have, kill it off. You'll thank me for it later. (Xypher)

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

If you're going to rattle my cage, you better make sure I'm padlocked in it.

Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Yes, but if we hurt the Abadonna in the process, we're going to find out what it feels like to be turned inside out. Literally. Like most beings, I actually like the fact that my skin is outside my body. (Urian)

Stop the pain." – Tory "You know I can't." – Acheron "Fine. But next time you're the one who's doing labor duty. I get to sit there and hold your hand." – Tory (And again he laughed. She glared at him.) "You have no sense of self preservation, do you?" – Tory

Nick moved over to Amanda, who seemed to be the safest bet in this family of homicidal loons. Amanda glanced at him over her shoulder. "For the record, if they attack, I'm throwing you at them and running for the door." "Gee, thanks." She shrugged. "How you think I've survived so long in this family?

I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can't toss your pearls before the swine. I think that's why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you're kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

You like rock? Little boy, I'm not your friend. I'm not your Dark-Hunter and I'm not your friggin' date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. ~ Dr. Burdette

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.