01c. 1963 ADI shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped."Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments." Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. "Then it feels good. We can't really control what flips our switch; don't judge it, Anita, and just accept it."I wanted to argue, but it would have been beyond stupid to argue with the two sociopaths in my life. "Why do I have moral quandary questions with the two of you?""Because you don't really have moral quandaries about violence, Anita, but you're afraid of being judged for enjoying it, so you only bring it to the two people in your life who won't judge you." I wanted to argue with Edward, but I couldn't. "Well, fuck.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADPerfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADI’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished forever? If you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante’s Inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
04c. 1963 ADSticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
05c. 1963 ADYou look wonderful", Jason said."No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie.""Then by all means take it off.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
07c. 1963 ADEdward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
08c. 1963 ADI sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
09c. 1963 ADI knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADEvery ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADHe made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADI'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
13c. 1963 ADIt wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
14c. 1963 ADThat's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
15c. 1963 ADWe aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -EdwardLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
16c. 1963 ADIf you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
17c. 1963 ADSome days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
18c. 1963 ADI 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.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
19c. 1963 ADHe'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
20c. 1963 ADWhat do you want?’'I want to play,’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
21c. 1963 ADTwenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
22c. 1963 ADShe'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
23c. 1963 ADAn atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
24c. 1963 ADThere 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.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
