Laurell K. Hamilton
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Biography
Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer, who is best known as the author of two series of stories.
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."
"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."
"Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed."
"Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright."
"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them."
"Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked"
"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more."
"Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned."
"Love is too precious to be ashamed of."
"Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way."
"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."
"I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself."
"Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?"
"One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention."
"He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath."
"I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was."
"Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out."
"I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them."
"Why is everything always my decision?"I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude"
"His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing."
"No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise."
"Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different."
"I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss."
"It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us."
"The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes."