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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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Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
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Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. I'll kill you. I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. I don't think so. She is pack now, Sylvie said. You fight one of us, and you fight all of us. Edward raised his eyebrows at me. What is going on, Anita? I think I've been adopted, I said.
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Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
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I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
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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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If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
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I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.
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I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.
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Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.
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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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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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Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita
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The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake
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Death, jewelry, or magic it sounded like Valentine's Day.
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They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.
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There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.
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Knock your bad self out.
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I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.
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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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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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