Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

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I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.

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You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…

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Being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

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Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

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If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

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Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

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Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead,

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If you're alive, don't move, if you're dead, don't worry about it.

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It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

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It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

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Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

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Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

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I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

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He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh, ma petite, ma petite, you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?" "My private jet." Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?" "I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower." "I prefer ma petite to flower.

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What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

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To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

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Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

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I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

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If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

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Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

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Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.

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But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

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You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

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Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

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It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.

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A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

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No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

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A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

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Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

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