It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli
Laurell K. HamiltonMarry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale thatโs based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
Laurell K. HamiltonI told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
Laurell K. HamiltonBut if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.
Laurell K. HamiltonI kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
Laurell K. Hamilton