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01Undated

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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02Undated

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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03Undated

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

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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04Undated

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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05Undated

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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06Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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07Undated

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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08Undated

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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09Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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10Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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11Undated

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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12Undated

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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13Undated

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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14Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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15Undated

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?

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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16Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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17Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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18Undated

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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19Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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20Undated

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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21Undated

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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22Undated

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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23Undated

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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24Undated

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton / quote

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