Top 100 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes
#1. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita
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#2. I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.
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#3. I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.
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#4. Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.
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#6. Why was I mad? Because he'd surprised me with a really nice hotel room. What a bastard.
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#8. 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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#9. Holy Wrath of God, Batman, your ass was going to be ours soon, you soul-trapping son of a bitch.
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#10. Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
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#11. Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
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#12. Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.
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#13. I HAD GOTTEN to see the sun rise as I drove home that morning. I hate sunrises.
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#14. Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.
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#16. If you're doing it right, love makes you more of who you are, not less,
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#17. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.
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#18. Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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#19. I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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#21. I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
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#22. What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.
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#23. Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.
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#24. If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.
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#25. Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
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#26. We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you.
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#27. Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.
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#29. What's the matter with you tonight?" he asked when we were out of earshot of Stirling and Co.
"I told you."
"No," he said, "it isn't just the murder tonight. Hell, I've seen you kill people and be less upset afterwards. What's wrong?
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#30. 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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#31. I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.
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#33. Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
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#34. And the boss isn't . . ." He waggled his hands back and forth. "Ya know, mean." I nodded. I did know. I could bitch and complain about Jean-Claude all I wanted, but compared to most Masters of the City, he was a pussycat. A big, dangerous, carnivorous pussycat, but still, it was an improvement.
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#35. And pressed my hands into fists, trying to prepare myself. There is no real way to prepare
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#36. What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
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#37. I had to admit it was a nice backside. She caught me looking at her and hurriedly turned away. "Defending my honor," Phillip asked.
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#38. I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.
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#39. 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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#40. If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
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#41. I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.
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#42. My least favorite thing was a man who had severe white-man's ass, where the jeans just bagged over the butt. I wanted something to hold on to, something to sink my teeth into. When I said I liked meat on my men I didn't just mean one thing.
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#43. Who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
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#44. 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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#45. It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
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#47. Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others if you buy them a collar and a nice leash and occasionally lead them around by it.
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#49. Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin.
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#50. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
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#52. That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.
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#54. You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it's like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.
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#55. What was I supposed to say? ... did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita
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#56. I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
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#57. What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.
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#58. Was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.
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#59. Hello, Jean-Claude," I said. "Greetings, ma petite," he said. His voice was like fur, rich, soft, vaguely obscene, as if just talking to him was something dirty. Maybe it was. "Don't call me ma petite," I said. He smiled slightly, not a hint of fang. "As you like.
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#60. You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.
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#61. I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
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#63. I seemed to have only two speeds on problems that hit me emotionally, either putting my fingers in my ears and going la-la-la, or picking up an axe and attacking the issue.
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#66. A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
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#67. Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.
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#68. Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.
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#69. I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.
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#73. 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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#74. If you keep the gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.
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#75. In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.
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#76. I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.
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#77. Edward's house. I'd never really hoped to see where he lived. He was like Batman. He rode into town, saved your ass, then vanished, and you never really expected an invitation to see the Bat Cave. Now here I was standing in front of it. Cool. It
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#78. I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.
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#79. He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.
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#80. 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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#81. Yes, but it is frightening and romantic for the Queen to say, 'Where is my Darkness, bring me my Darkness,' and someone would bleed or die at his hand." "You
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#83. People who don't camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn't. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.
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#84. Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.
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#86. You saved me because you could not bear the thought of leaving me behind." He touched my face, very gently. "Not from a sense of right and wrong, but because you are just that tenderhearted.
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#87. 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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#90. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
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#92. His gun was a .357 Magnum, great for whale hunting. It was overkill for anything on two legs. That was human. I felt very human staring down that gun barrel.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. Patting someone's hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn't have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass,
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#97. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
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#99. there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did
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#100. If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
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