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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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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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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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All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
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I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.
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Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
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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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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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No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
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Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.
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Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
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Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.
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I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.
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Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude
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I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time now I had to start living for them.
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Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
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Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
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Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.
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What is it about her that is so goddamned special?
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It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.
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