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Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.
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I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Do the gods sleep well at night? I think maybe they do.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. "Do you want me to hurt you?"
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink.
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because love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself. It can require risking everything you are, not just in battle, but emotionally. Sometimes you have to risk it all to gain it all.
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Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I've found that it's so often the other way around.
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we're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.
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That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds." "No, I didn't kill her." ... "The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way."
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A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.
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Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.
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there is beauty that hits the eye like a bolt of lightning, that burns and sears and blinds. It is more disaster than pleasure. But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realise that the moon, too, has its beauty.
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She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I would have to spend the afternoon shopping. I hate to shop. I considered it one of the life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
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Larry and the pilot stood to one side, smoking, sharing that camaraderie of all people who are determined to blacken their lungs.
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Visions of such things would get you talking of demons, which Quinlan had done briefly. The police ignored him, and I didn't back up his story. Quinlan had never met a real demon, or he wouldn't have made the mistake. Once you've been in the presence of demons, you never forget it. I'd rather fight a dozen vampires than one demonic presence. They don't give a shit about silver bullets.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.
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Everyone turned towards me. The two female vamps smiled, most unpleasantly. They looked at me like I was a piece of candy and they wondered what sort of center I had. Soft and gooey, or hard with a nut in the middle? I'd had men undress me with their eyes, but I'd never had anything trying to picture what I'd look like with my skin off. Yikes.
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They would be happy to bring some up. No one bitched about the time. No one questioned. You can always tell how much you're paying for a room by how little they complain.
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See if he's alive." It was a messy job, and I'd have done it myself, but I trusted me more than Larry to keep the vampires away. He'd saved me once tonight, but I still trusted me more."
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The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.
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To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person; not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation...but still thinks puppies are really cute.
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Sex is one of the most personal things we do as people. To have someone who says she loves you limit how you express yourself in the bedroom is like a small death. It kills the soul.
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Resulta turbador que alguien se considere mal tipo y le de igual. Atenta contra todo lo sagrado. Se nos ensena, por encima de todo, a ser amables y cultivar la amistad. Alguien que prescinde de todo eso es un individualista y un peligro en potencia
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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It's not my fault that it's illegal to marry multiple men at the same time; that's like saying that a gay couple isn't as serious as a straight couple because the straight couple is married, at the same time you make it impossible for the gay couple to marry.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.'
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Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit.
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Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.
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To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.
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There is no loyalty in fear, only resentment,
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he'd wanted to do for years while we dated--the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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A lovable, cuddly bear. i didn't need a teddy bear for backup.
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Love doesn't conquer all, but it can help you conquer everything else.
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People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Ronnie, telefonun diger ucunda sessizdi. ''Tamam ama dikkatli ol.'' ''Dugun gecesindeki bir bakire gibi.'' Guldu.''Sen yola gelmezsin.'' ''Herkes oyle diyor,''dedim.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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There had been a time when I'd believed my power was evil, but God didn't seem to feel that way, so until He changed His mind, I just had faith that my power came from the right side.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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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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I thought about it for another minute, and then said, "Okay." "Now that's an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay." I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right."
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Can you speed this up? I want to get to bed." A slight frown appeared between his eyes. "Anita, you are not making this easy." "Hurrah," I said. The frown smoothed out as he sighed. "You would think I would give up on you ever being easy." "Yes," I said, "you would." Anita and Jean-Claude"
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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My answer seemed to please him, and he let it go. Matthew was teaching me not to over explain, to explain just enough to make him happy, and not dig the verbal hole deeper. Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what's asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Judge for yourself. I've hated him and tried to love him for so many years I can't see him clearly.
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