Laurell K. Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures (1993)

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That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

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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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I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

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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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Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

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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 know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

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I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

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An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

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You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

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Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

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The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

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It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

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I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

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You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

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Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave now, or join us at our...feast." Are you having rare Who-roast-beast?" I asked. What are you talking about?" It's from Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You know the part, 'And they'd Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! They would feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast-beast.'" You are crazy." So I've been told.

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Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

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The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

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