Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt. Laurell K. Hamilton More Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton More Quotes From Laurell K. Hamilton It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy. Laurell K. Hamilton bedsorrybook If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home. Laurell K. Hamilton window-to-the-souleyehome To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real. Laurell K. Hamilton haterealheart I`m not a morning person. Laurell K. Hamilton funny-good-morningpersonsmorning ...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all. Laurell K. Hamilton doememoriesneeds But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering. Laurell K. Hamilton differentdonemen The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates. Laurell K. Hamilton greekperfectthinking Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together. Laurell K. Hamilton smartstupidtogether 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. Laurell K. Hamilton realmeanlying And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked. Laurell K. Hamilton madnicemean You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes. Laurell K. Hamilton lutherawfulfirsts Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make. Laurell K. Hamilton differenceskidschildren Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. Laurell K. Hamilton emotionblindhate Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed. Laurell K. Hamilton magiccatsight Not dating is a choice, not a failure. Laurell K. Hamilton datingchoices I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? Laurell K. Hamilton wipefistsself Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year. Laurell K. Hamilton leopardsanimalyears Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human. Laurell K. Hamilton humanscomplainingmen 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. Laurell K. Hamilton let-him-goifsbrave I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic. Laurell K. Hamilton ironicdatingcountry