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21 " Apologies that do not lead to better actions are empty things.” “Amen to that,” I said. "
― Laurell K. Hamilton , Kiss the Dead (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #21)
22 " I love you,” I said, and this time I meant it. I could see the smile that went with the tone of his voice as he said, “I know, and I love you more.” I smiled. “I love you most.” Nathaniel’s voice came on the phone as if Micah were holding it out to him: “I love you mostest. "
23 " slid the plastic booties over my shoes next. I’d gotten where I could do it standing up on one foot, and I didn’t track pieces of my work home with me. I still hadn’t heard the end of the time I had a piece of brain matter stuck to one shoe and didn’t notice until I was walking across the living room carpet. All right, honestly, I didn’t notice at all. Micah noticed, and Nathaniel said he had no idea how to clean brains out of carpeting, so please don’t get it on the carpet. "
24 " Vanessa is set on children, "
25 " Stephen wasn’t going to work through his issues in time to save his relationship with Vanessa, "
26 " It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them. "
27 " You enjoying your rabbit food?” I asked. “That was low, Anita,” he said, and he stirred his salad with his fork, not really eating it. Maybe that was how you lost weight on salads; you just didn’t want to eat them, so you didn’t eat, and voilà, you lost weight. "
28 " It’s too thick. Human blood is a little more watery than that, even heart blood. "
29 " One of the hardest things to learn about being polyamorous was you could be totally heartbroken about relationship B, but still be happy about relationship C, but having C didn’t make losing B less painful. It meant you had another established relationship to help you heal over the lost one, but your heart still broke. I’d had this idea that if you loved more people you wouldn’t get your heart truly broken unless you lost them all, but like so many theories, reality was different. "
30 " I’d learned to never underestimate the crazy. Crazy didn’t mean dumb; some insane people were incredibly smart. Sometimes I wondered if you had to be a certain level of intelligent just to go crazy in style. "
31 " anyone who ever said love conquers all was a fucking liar. Love is a good place to start, but it’s a start, not an end. "
