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If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.
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Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
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...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.
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Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
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When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
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I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.
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I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.
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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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What's your name? Donald. Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.
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It means black kitten, I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten? They're wererats, Ares, I said. He frowned at me. They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.
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I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.
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I think like a detective.
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One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
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I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.
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You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.
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If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
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I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
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One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.
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Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
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