“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.” -Laurell K. Hamilton
Ha-ha! It really made me think when I first encountered it too. I ended on the thought that that's how far you have to push being nice, so far that you don't care what they think of you anymore, so what's the point in holding back at that point? Destroy them for pushing you that far.
Of course, this doesn't mean that a man can't say no, it just takes being kind and firm in saying no.
This quote sums it up for me.
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.” -Laurell K. Hamilton
So true, that ending caught me by surprise though!
Ha-ha! It really made me think when I first encountered it too. I ended on the thought that that's how far you have to push being nice, so far that you don't care what they think of you anymore, so what's the point in holding back at that point? Destroy them for pushing you that far.
Of course, this doesn't mean that a man can't say no, it just takes being kind and firm in saying no.