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If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Impress
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I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
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Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
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The ratman froze, staring at me. Why are you laughing? His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.
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You 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.
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I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.
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When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
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I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
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I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
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No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.
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Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.
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I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack. The coffin? I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
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Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.
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Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
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Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.
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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
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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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Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
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