When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed Laurell K. Hamilton More Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton More Quotes From Laurell K. Hamilton Heroes don't get anything but dead. Laurell K. Hamilton hero I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. Laurell K. Hamilton writing-stories writing teacher Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. Laurell K. Hamilton fit creative people A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one. Laurell K. Hamilton potato-chips potatoes vampire Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it. Laurell K. Hamilton testing chastity ifs Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy? Laurell K. Hamilton candy pleasant evil The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor. Laurell K. Hamilton federal-government sense-of-humor government Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Laurell K. Hamilton idealism theory real Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst. Laurell K. Hamilton knives worst life Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have. Laurell K. Hamilton emotion love-is love If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising. Laurell K. Hamilton love long thinking Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth. Laurell K. Hamilton choices lying way One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time. Laurell K. Hamilton hiding-something lying people -Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. 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. Laurell K. Hamilton simple letting-go home I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me. Laurell K. Hamilton fifteen next hurt Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said. Laurell K. Hamilton eyebrows fighting thinking I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do. Laurell K. Hamilton fear-of-love ifs In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. Laurell K. Hamilton psychics real stuff Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. Laurell K. Hamilton olaf sinister They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist. Laurell K. Hamilton light dark opposites