Top 100 Laurell K Hamilton Quotes
#1. 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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#3. Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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#4. I am not always certain that it is I who am the better person, ma petite, but together we are the better person.
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#5. One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
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#7. I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't breathe. I was splattered with blood. I'd never beaten someone to death before. It had felt good.
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#8. If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
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#9. I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.
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#10. Life is like dancing, sometimes one of you leads, sometimes the other, and if you do it right it's beautiful, even when it's hard.
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#11. It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.
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#12. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita
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#13. I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.
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#14. 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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#15. Don't make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what's best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don't like their choices.
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#16. It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.
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#18. Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
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#19. You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.
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#20. By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
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#21. 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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#22. I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine.
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#23. What could I possibly be mad about?' The sarcasm was thick enough to eat with a spoon.
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#24. 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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#26. I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was.
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#27. 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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#28. There are pains too deep for words, but there's touch to say what words can't.
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#31. The only part of love that is blind is that first rush of endorphins and craziness; after that wears off, no one knows you as honestly, warts and all, as the people who love you, truly love you.
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#33. I talk to myself every once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. I
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#35. And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.
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#36. If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.
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#37. Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.
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#38. Goddess" he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child." Will I see you again?"
Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. "In the face of every woman you meet
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#40. Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.
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#41. Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
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#43. Ma petite.' That was all, just my nickname, but it seemed to hold years of I love yous. The
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#44. Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
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#45. 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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#46. Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
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#47. Why was I mad? Because he'd surprised me with a really nice hotel room. What a bastard.
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#49. I should have remembered that your livery is a spider." He gave a very small smile, which for Doyle was an outrageous amount of expression. "Normally, I would give you time to adjust to my presence, our predicament, but your wards will not hold forever. We must act if you are to be saved.
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#51. 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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#54. I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace
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#55. Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.
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#57. Sex was like money in the bank; if you made regular and sizable deposits, you earned more interest. Jean-Claude had earned a lot of interest over the years.
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#58. You don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.
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#59. shook my head. "This is too easy." "Don't worry. Something will go wrong soon." He continued down the corridor, and I followed. It took me three steps to realize Edward had made a joke. The
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#60. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.
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#61. No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.
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#63. Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.
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#64. I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
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#65. Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself."
"Why?" I said.
"If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.
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#67. All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
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#68. Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
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#69. Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.
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#70. I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
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#73. Holy Wrath of God, Batman, your ass was going to be ours soon, you soul-trapping son of a bitch.
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#74. Frustration in a fight can lead to four things: You give up, you fight harder, you fight worse, or you cheat.
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#75. Larry is back in town ... The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.
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#76. He let me see in that strangely handsome face that he was thinking about her not without her clothes on, but eventually without her skin.
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#77. There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body.
- Jean-Claude
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#79. There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.
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#80. We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.
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#81. If you are not a lady, then you are a whore. You do not want to know what would happen to a human whore within these walls. He seemed tired as he said it, as if he'd been there, done that, and hadn't had a good time.
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#82. A challenge forever," I said. "For all eternity," he whispered. I let him draw me down into a kiss, and part of me was still not sure if I'd done a good thing or a bad thing. But just for tonight, I didn't care.
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#83. Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
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#84. Together we are more than we are apart, Anita, that is what love is.' I
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#85. The pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.
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#86. 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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#87. It was more fun to hunt monsters before we had someone to go home to,' I said. The
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#90. It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
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#91. If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.
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#92. Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
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#93. Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.
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#94. There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.
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#95. Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.
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#96. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
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#97. Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.
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#98. Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.
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#100. 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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