Susannah Sandlin Quotes

#1. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?

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#2. I'll talk to her." Mirren's deep, rumbling voice sliced through the room like a cutter ship, leaving silence in its wake. "The rest of you, get the hell out.

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#3. Ceelie preferred cats and small dogs, although they tended to be eaten by alligators around here, as she recalled. Munchability wasn't a desirable trait in a pet.

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#4. Mirren pulled the knife blade across the vampire's throat before he could answer. Two more strokes and it was done. Sometimes, one didn't need a sword to take a head. Rage and a good, sharp knife worked just fine.

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#5. You don't like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I'm perceptive like that.

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#6. I see you've got an unwanted visitor." He walked to stand beside Doris just as she poked at the gator with the table leg and caused it to hiss and back up again. "Ma'am, would you please not poke the gator anymore? Hissing is his way of telling you he doesn't much like that.

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#7. We have unfinished personal business I do believe." He smiled. "And I do love to make you blush."
"It clashes with my hair.

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#8. Mirren? Prickly? Say it ain't so.

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#9. Three centuries as a vampire and I get suckered by a pansy-ass little girl who hasn't been turned for a year.

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#10. What a voice. Deep, throaty, but not in a sexy way. In a haunted way. A voice full of heartbreak and ghosts.

I won't go back, I won't go home,
'Cause in this place, the dead still roam,
'Cause this time, Whiskey Bayou won't let me go.

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#11. Jena shook her head. "Paul needs a life."
"Paul needs a woman," Ceelie said.

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#12. You can beat your head against a wall trying to change the people you're supposed to love, or you can walk away and make your own way.

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#13. How 'bout you, Jena?" He leaned closer, speaking in an exaggerated whisper. "We could go somewhere private. I know you probably got some scars from being shot, but you can't see a scar in the dark, right?"
The dickwad was offering her a pity fuck in a darkened room?

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#14. Everybody in Penton, even Hannah, was ridiculously strong - what did they put in their Wheaties?

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#15. He'd danced around that story about why he'd moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice.

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#16. This might be the last chance he had to sit with her, the only chance he had to see her face holding concern for him rather than fear or contempt. Too bad she was still half-buzzed from the enthrallment. He lifted a dark curl away from her face, memorizing her features.

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#17. Bones gotta have a special place of respect," she'd told Ceelie more times than she could count. "You treat them right and they'll always speak true."
"The bones never lie," Ceelie whispered, placing the last one - a tiny skull - into the box and closing the lid.

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#18. As soon as Will disappeared around the corner, Mirren stood up. Stealth was not the way of the gallowglass, and tonight, he was gallowglass and slayer, both.

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#19. What takes more courage - doing what's normal and being miserable, or admitting what you need in order to be happy?

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