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The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4) QUOTES

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4) QUOTES

1 " What do you want?’
'I want to play,’ he said.
I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’
'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

2 " I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

3 " the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

4 " If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die... "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

5 " I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

6 " I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

7 " Anita can speak for herself," Richard said.
Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play."
"And pigs fly," I said.
"You don't believe me?"
"Not hardly," I said. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

8 " He's no more human than I am, ma petite."
At least I'm not dead."
That can be remedied. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

9 " Ma petite ...'
'No, you've done enough talking. It's my turn. If you harm Richard Zeeman, I'll kill you.'
'He means that much to you?' There was surprise in his voice. Great.
'No, you mean that little'. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

10 " At least I'm not dead.

That can be remedied.

Jean-Claude & Richard "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

11 " Can you speed this up? I want to get to bed."

A slight frown appeared between his eyes. "Anita, you are not making this easy."

"Hurrah," I said.

The frown smoothed out as he sighed. "You would think I would give up on you ever being easy."

"Yes," I said, "you would."

Anita and Jean-Claude "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

12 " If I’d been alone, I wouldn’t have eaten at all. I’d have taken a shower, thrown on an oversize T-shirt, and gone to bed surrounded by a few select penguins. Now I had a fancy dinner to eat, by candlelight nonetheless. If I said I wasn’t hungry, would he be insulted? Would he pout? Would he yell about all the work going to waste and tell me about starving kids in Southeast Asia? “Shit,” I said softly and with feeling. Well, hell, if we ever were going to cohabitate, he’d have to know the truth. I was unsociable, and food was something you ate so you wouldn’t die. I "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

13 " Door’s not locked,” Zerbrowski said. “You’re a cop. How can you leave your car unlocked?” I opened the door and stopped. The passenger seat and floorboard were full. McDonald’s take-out sacks and newspapers filled the seat and flowed onto the floorboards. A piece of petrified pizza and a herd of pop cans filled the rest of the floorboard. “Jesus, Zerbrowski, does the EPA know you’re driving a toxic waste dump through populated areas?” “See why I leave it unlocked. Who would steal it?” He knelt in the seat and began shoveling armfuls of garbage into the backseat. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

14 " Ronnie sat on the couch, as far away from him as she could get but still rather companiable. Cozier than I was willing to be with the son of a bitch. If I ever managed to get married and my husband cheated on me, it wouldn’t be me to go missing. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

15 " My mug had a reindeer in a bathrobe and slippers with Christmas lights laced in its antlers, toasting the merry season with champagne and saying, “Bingle Jells. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

16 " Had Richard really proposed? Had I really said yes? Surely not. I had said yes. Shit. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

17 " You’re like great Shakespearean tragedy. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

18 " This was the second time I’d asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn’t realize it. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

19 " safety. I wore a lot of sweaters in the winter, but tonight I’d wanted something dressier, and I was freezing my patooties off, "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)

20 " Richard had scooted in to sit on my left without being asked. He’s a quick study. It’s one of the reasons we’re still going out. That and the fact that I lust after his body something terrible. I "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)