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Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17) QUOTES

Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17) QUOTES

1 " I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

2 " Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing? "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

3 " In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

4 " I’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished forever? If you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante’s Inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

5 " Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

6 " We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

7 " If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

8 " Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

9 " I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

10 " I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

11 " I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

12 " When in doubt, shut the fuck up. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

13 " No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

14 " Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

15 " One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

16 " What had my scary thought been? That Olaf was sincere. In some crazy,pathological way, he like-liked me. As in boyfriend-liked me. Not just for fucking or slaughter, but maybe, just maybe, he actually wanted to date me like one human being to another. He seemed to have no clue how to interact with a woman in a way that wasn't terrifying, but he was trying. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, he was trying. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

17 " Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

18 " I'm a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of... "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

19 " Fears are not meant to be shared; they're meant to be conquered. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

20 " I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)