Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.
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. HamiltonSilk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
Laurell K. HamiltonI tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake
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