Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Father, Grief

  "A Stroke of Midnight". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2005.

• Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

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  Giving Up, Growing Up, Purpose

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.71, Penguin

• Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Couple, Fighting

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.65, Penguin

• If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

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  Love, Giving Up, Couple

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.312, Penguin

• Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hate, Fire, Giving

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.72, Penguin

• When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dance, Giving, Devil

• I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

• Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Moon, Night

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.37, Penguin

• More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Giving, Honor

• Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Rotting, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.168, Penguin

• Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.163, Hachette UK

• Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Names, Two, Giving

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.221, Penguin

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Giving, Lovers

  J. D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, Maggie Shayne (2001). “Out of this World”, p.294, Penguin

• If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Wanted, Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.67, Penguin

• Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

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  Evil, Giving, Ordinary

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.308, Penguin

• I give good advice. I do not always take it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Advice, Good Advice

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.100, Penguin

• ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Apr 04, 2012

• I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Water, Vampire

• I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Kissing, Giving, Want

• Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Teacher, Giving Up, Heart

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1855, Penguin

• My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Writing, Character

• Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Giving, Demon

• So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Who I Am, Voice, People

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