Laurell K. Hamilton Zitate

seite 6

“There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.”

“If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”

“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

“You don't smoke do you?"
"No, why?"
"They're afraid of fire."
"Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes."
I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…”

“Pretend I asked, now answer the question…”

“True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.”

“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.”

“They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

“To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”

“Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

“In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.”

“Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.”

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”

“Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.”

“Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”

“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

“Larry is back in town… The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.”

“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

“I never said I was consistent.”

“Because everything worth having hurts.”

“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”

“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

“What was I supposed to say?….. did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita”