Laurell K. Hamilton: Someone

“Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”

“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

“I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”

“Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.”

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”

“No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.”