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Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

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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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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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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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Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
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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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Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.
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You're up to something, I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. Moi? Yeah, you.
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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.
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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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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
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If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.
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Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.
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