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I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
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His parting shot to me had been, I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
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Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.
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Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.
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murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
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The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry
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Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
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So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
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