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It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

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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Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself. Why? I said. If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.
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If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.
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You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
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If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
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We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them
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One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.
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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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Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others
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A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
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Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.
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He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.
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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
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I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
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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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Because everything worth having hurts.
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I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.
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They be crazier than we are.
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If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.
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No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
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Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.
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