Quotes from Circus of the Damned

“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?"
"I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said.
"I rest my case.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“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?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“People go away and they don't come back.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“You are an abomination before God.

Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Not dating is a choice, not a failure.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“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, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“What are you afraid of?' I asked.
'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“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, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“I stared at Jean-Claude still cuddled on the corner of the bed. He looked adorable, and if I’d had a gun, I’d have shot him on the spot.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Even my shoulder holster and the Browning matched. I had my backup gun in an inner pants holster. I also had two extra clips in my sport bag. I had replaced the knife I’d had to leave in the cave. There was a derringer in my jacket pocket and two extra knives, one down the spine, the other in an ankle holster. Don’t laugh. I left the shotgun home. If”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“I stared at the phone. I’d had to do it. Had to. So why did my stomach feel tight? Why did I have the urge to call Jean-Claude and warn him? Was it the marks, or was Richard right? Did I love Jean-Claude in some strange, twisted way? God help me, I hoped not.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

“Say you’ll go caving this weekend.” The leather coat crinkled and moved as he tried to move closer to me than the seat belt would allow. He could have reached out and touched me. Part of me wanted him to, which was sort of embarrassing all on its own. I started to say no, then realized I wanted to say yes. Which was silly. But I was enjoying sitting in the dark with the smell of leather and cologne. Call it chemistry, instant lust, whatever. I liked Richard. He flipped my switch. It had been a long time since I had liked anybody. Jean-Claude”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Circus of the Damned

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