Circus of the Damned Quotes

“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?"
"I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said.
"I rest my case.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Believe this, Bitch.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“People go away and they don't come back.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“You are an abomination before God.

Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Not dating is a choice, not a failure.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“What are you afraid of?' I asked.
'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“sight. So I was still attracted to Jean-Claude. I might even, in some dark corner, love him a little. It didn’t matter. Loving the monsters always ends badly for the human. It’s a rule. That”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Now what?” John asked. He’d put up his gun. I still hadn’t. I felt better with it out for some reason. “Now I go make my third animation appointment of the evening.” “Just like that?” I looked up at him, ready to be angry at somebody. “What do you want me to do, John? Fall into a screaming fit? That wouldn’t bring back the dead, and it would annoy the hell out of me.” He sighed. “If you only matched your packaging.” I put my gun back in the shoulder holster, smiled at him, and said, “Fuck you.” Yeah, those are the words.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“There had been two dates between us. Mistake. It made working together more awkward, and he couldn’t cope with me being a female version of him. He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words. There”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“He said, softly, “Sorry, Jimmy.” He still didn’t cry. I would have cried. But then, women have more chemicals in their tear ducts. It makes us tear up easier than men. Honest.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I was hungry, and the corn dogs smelled good. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. I”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned