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One Of My Favorite Things About Hanging Out With The Monsters Is The Healing. Straight Humans Seemed To Get Killed On Me A Lot. Monsters Survived. Let's Hear It For The Monsters.

-Laurell K. Hamilton

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One Of My Favorite Things About Hanging Out With The Monsters Is The Healing. Straight Humans Seemed To Get Killed On Me A Lot. Monsters Survived. Let's Hear It For The Monsters.

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Why Was So Much Evil Pleasant, Pretty On The Outside, Like Poisoned Candy?

Methinks We Have A Clue. Be Still, My Heart.

The Greeks Believed That Once There Were No Male And Female, That All Souls Were One. Then The Souls Were Torn Apart, Male And Female. The Greeks Thought That When You Found The Other Half Of Your Soul, Your Soul Mate, That It Would Be Your Perfect Lover But I Think If You Find Your Other Half, You Would Be Too Much Alike To Be Lovers, But You Would Still Be Soul Mates.

Death, Jewelry, Or Magic; It Sounded Like Valentine's Day.

The Truth May Not Set You Free, But Used Carefully, It Can Confuse The Hell Out Of Your Enemies.

It Was Two Weeks Before Christmas. A Slow Time Of Year For Raising The Dead.

Most Hatred Is Based On Fear, One Way Or Another. Yeah. I Wrapped Myself In Anger, With A Dash Of Hate, And At The Bottom Of It All Was An Icy Center Of Pure Terror.

I Think That My Vampires In General Were Influenced By My Being Allowed To Watch The Hammer Vampire Films. Vampire Circus, Also Shown As Circus Of Fear, Was One Of Those Movies

I Smiled At Him, As Doyle Squeezed My Hand And I Squeezed Back. "some People Are Addicted To Falling In Love, Doctor. Some People Love That Rush Of New Emotions, And When That First Rush Of New Love Is Spent, They Move On To The Next, Thinking The Love Wasn't Real. What I Felt In Her, And Potentially In You, Is The Love Of Years. Love That Knows That That First Rush Of Freshness Isn't The Real Thing. It's The Tip Of The Iceberg.

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People Are Supposed To Fear The Unknown, But Ignorance Is Bliss When Knowledge Is So Damn Frightening.

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