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1 " 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 , Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3)
2 " 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. "
3 " Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned. "
4 " 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? "
5 " I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal. "
6 " Believe this, Bitch. "
7 " 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. "
8 " Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch. "
9 " 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. "
10 " There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. "
11 " Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway? "
12 " People go away and they don't come back. "
13 " I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them. "
14 " There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones. "
15 " A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. "
16 " I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part. "
17 " Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities. "
18 " Not dating is a choice, not a failure. "
19 " 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. "
20 " 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. "