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It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong. Pessimism will keep you alive, optimism won't.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Bloody Bones
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
Confidence is a fine trait. Overconfidence isn't.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
The only good enemy is a dead enemy.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Bloody Bones
I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
I've learned over the years that if someone says they're a god, you don't argue with them unless you're better armed.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
The best lies are always at least partially true.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil.... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
People who don't camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn't. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Bloody Bones
The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
God doesn't always save someone. Often He just helps you live through the loss. I guess I don't entirely trust God. I never doubt Him, but his motives are too beyond me. Through a glass darkly and all that. Just once I'd like to see through that damn glass clearly.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Bloody Bones
If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Hatred makes us all ugly.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
We're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
Heroes don't get anything but dead.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Never look back; something is always gaining on you.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Bloody Bones
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