Laurell K. Hamilton: Likeness

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“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”

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“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

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

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“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.”

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“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

“I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid…”

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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

“That feeling of terrible emptiness when I touched him was like going into a house that you thought would be full of people you loved, only to find it empty, and even the furniture taken. You walk from room to room, hearing your footsteps echo on the naked floors. Your voice bounces back from the empty walls, where the lines of beloved photos still show like the line around a body at a crime scene. He was gone.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

memories of Princess Meredith about encountering the body of her father, Essus; p. 40
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)