Laurell K. Hamilton Zitate

seite 5

“He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.”

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

“If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”

“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”

“You can never have too much coffee”, I said
He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.”

“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”

“Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto”

“If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.”

“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.”

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow”

“I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”

“Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.”

“Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.”

“I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.”

“I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.”

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”

“How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”

“He's no more human than I am, ma petite."
At least I'm not dead."
That can be remedied.”

“You're up to something," I said.
He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?"
"Yeah, you”

“Animators Inc., where our motto was.”

“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”

“Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”

“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”

“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.”

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”