01c. 1963 ADLust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADIt may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADIf the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
04c. 1963 ADtrust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
06c. 1963 ADTo gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
07c. 1963 ADStupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
08c. 1963 ADYou lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward."He smiled. "I don't lie to you.""Really," I said.The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
09c. 1963 ADWhy, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADWe call them survivors, but once the vampires get you, the person you were dies, like any traumatized part of you never leaves that room, that car, that moment, and you walk forward a ghost of your former self. You rebuild yourself over the years, but the person you were isn’t the person you become. The great bad thing happens, and you become a ghost in your own life, and then you become flesh and blood and remake your life, but the ghosts of what happened don’t go away completely. They wait for you in low moments, and then they wail at you, shaking their chains in your face and trying to strangle you with them.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADIf you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADHe held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone’s big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
13c. 1963 ADQuestions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
14c. 1963 ADWatching St John rock his wife's body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could see the door, the hallway, and the stairs as far as the landing. St John started singing in a strange, broken voice. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he was singing. It was 'You are so BeautifulLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
15c. 1963 ADLately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
17c. 1963 ADThe tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
18c. 1963 ADIf you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
19c. 1963 ADThere was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was alittle boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is moreappealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
20c. 1963 ADYou just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your buttLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
21c. 1963 ADAnd there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucking psycho bitch and I hate you.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
22c. 1963 ADThen stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to AnitaLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
23c. 1963 ADLet’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; they’re keeping you safe from me.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
24c. 1963 ADWhether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
