Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

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All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

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I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?

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I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

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The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? — Anita Blake

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There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

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His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

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Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

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But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.

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They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

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I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

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I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

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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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There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

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She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

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In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

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I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

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If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

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You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.

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I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

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Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

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We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

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I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

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I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

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