The Nature of Cruelty Quotes

“Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful boy walks into your life, sees something he doesn’t like or doesn’t understand, and painstakingly endeavours to make you feel how much he hates you, to be constantly aware of the flaws that provoke that hatred. And then you grow older and wiser, but you don’t forget the cruelty. You can’t forget it, because there is nothing stronger, nothing more palpable in the human brain than the memory of mistreatment.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Sometimes I think my own brain might be a bitch whose sole purpose is to make me feel shitty. To quote Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle, “Why won’t my brain let me be happy?”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy of all. The ones you have to fight for.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“I confronted her about it a few times, but she always denies it. She’s so far inside the closet, Lana, she might as well be halfway to Narnia. My sister has some serious issues with coming out.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“But just so you know, most people are made of good and bad. And most people are capable of keeping the bad much smaller than the good,”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“sometimes people work really hard to portray a certain picture when in reality the opposite is true.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Perfection doesn’t exist, but beauty does”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“It’s almost impossible not to fall in love with Robert even when he’s acting like the devil incarnate, never mind when he’s being all tender and affectionate. A lesson for life: Beauty often causes people to overlook deeper flaws.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“This whole encounter started with me forcing my company on her, with me being the one in control, and with only a few softly spoken words she’s turned the whole thing around on me. She doesn’t even know it, but she might as well be clutching my beating heart in her gentle hands”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Admitting it to Sasha would be on a par to admitting I listen to One Direction in secret or something.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Perhaps your way of keeping yourself t yourself was cruel to the people who wanted you to show them your insides.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“So, you see, in essence, cruelty is a cycle. A person inflicts it and it spreads. It simply breeds more and more of itself in a loop.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“Sometimes it's best to do nothing at all where social networking is concerned.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty

“It's strang how the people who end up in your life can shape you for the worst.”
― L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty