Laurell K. Hamilton: If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eate...

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

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chickens car needed

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

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flames darkness humanity

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

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missed-you names

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.

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strong sides watches

murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel

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my-boyfriend murder

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

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merry questioning monsters

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

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people years ideas

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.

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insecure nice boys

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

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vampire atheist sight

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

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messed-up perfect want

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

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illusion sane sometimes

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

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hammers nails tools

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

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pessimist sometimes needs

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?

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bamboo believe people

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

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fear-nothing brave foolish

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

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giving-up lovers giving

He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.

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curls nice boys

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

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special loss people

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

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pain lost firsts

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

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rumor running men

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.