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Because everything worth having hurts.

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
Hurts
Worth
Hurt
Everything

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I wasn't like most girls.
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He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.
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I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
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Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
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When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens
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There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
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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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She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
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Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
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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.
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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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Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
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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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Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people
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Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.
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If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.
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