Quotes from Cerulean Sins

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than pleasured. I feel like a child in the dark who knows the monsters are under the bed. I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies."
- Jean-Claude”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I let Richard walk out on me. I think he’d have gone anyway, but I just sat on the floor and watched him go. I didn’t stand in his way. I figured it was his choice, and you cant hold someone if they don’t want to be held. If someone really wants to be free of you, you have to let them go. Well, fuck that, fuck that all to hell. Don’t go, Asher, please, don’t go. I love the way your hair shines in the light. I love that way you smile when you’re not trying to hide or impress anyone. I love your laughter. I love the way your voice can hold sorrow like the taste of rain. I love the way you watch Jean-Claude when he moves through a room, when you don’t think anyone’s watching, because its exactly the way I watch him. I love your eyes. I love your pain. I love you.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“You look like shit." Jason smiled, without opening his eyes.
"You sweet-talker.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Let's fool around."
"And then?" he asked, voice low.
"When it's time, take blood, and then let's fuck."
He gave a surprised burst of laughter. "Ma petite, you are such a sweet-talker, how can I refuse?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

“Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Cerulean Sins

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With the rest of the bones.

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Okay.

That was heroic and uncomfortably inspirational, wasn’t it? Poignant, even. You can almost hear the trumpets and the violins. And that kind of romance is not what we need. It serves no one, and the cost to maintain it is too high.

So, let’s agree that Indians are not special. We’re not … mystical. I’m fine with that. Yes, a great many Native people have a long-standing relationship with the natural world. But that relationship is equally available to non-Natives, should they choose to embrace it. The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives on our terms.”
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