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Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. "The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates."
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I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.
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884e0a4
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Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.
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The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry
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I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup.
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funny
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
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murder
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Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.
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Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.
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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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I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
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philosophy
wisdom
life-experience
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Do you practice the laugh, or is it a natural talent? Naw, I'm betting you practice." Jean-Claude's face twisted. I couldn't decide if he was trying not to laugh, or not to frown. Maybe both. I affected some people that way. The laughter seeped out of her face, very human, until only her eyes sparkled. There was nothing funny about the look in those twinkling eyes. It was the sort of look a cat gives a small bird. Her voice lifted at t..
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A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.
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Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said."
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Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita
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nightmares
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Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
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sarcasm
vampires
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I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.' He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.' 'What kind of dogs?' I asked. He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.' 'Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.' 'Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.' I stared at hi..
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funny
ted-forrester
edward
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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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You can never have too much coffee", I said He turned and smiled at me. "You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD'ed on your level of caffeine."
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I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than pleasured. I feel like a child in the dark who knows the monsters are under the bed. I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies." - Jean-Claude"
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jean-claude
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I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
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cerulean-sins
sugar
coffee
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What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Hope is a lying bitch.
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Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
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People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.
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Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.
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inspirational
cerulean-sins
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I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude
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jean-claude
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Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.
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relationships
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Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.
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You're up to something," I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?" "Yeah, you,"
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jean-claude
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I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.
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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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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied."
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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fabbfab
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Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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95c9518
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It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through."
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
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ea95037
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He balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said."
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funny
laurell-k-hamilton
richard
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