Dead Ice Quotes

“I really wish the “normal” people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn’t give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don’t understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“he’d wanted to do for years while we dated—the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can’t really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Patting someone’s hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass,”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“We all build upon our ruins.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Puta, really, that’s the best insult you got? I’ve been called the Whore of Babylon on national TV; puta just doesn’t quite cut it.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“We take turns being smart for each other; I think it’s part of the job description of being a couple.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“never mistake kindness for weakness, Asher. It’s not the same thing.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude’s favorite things.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“you really did want the sleeping dogs to keep napping, because once they woke up they tried to tear your throat out.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Holy Wrath of God, Batman, your ass was going to be ours soon, you soul-trapping son of a bitch.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it’s not paranoia; it’s just the truth.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“law is enforced the way the law is written; it’s not about true justice, it’s about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“It was like someone who is so used to being made fun of that they say the mean things first, try to make it their joke, so the bullies don’t get a chance to cut them up. It works, in a way, but it means the person saying the words internalizes the message more, because they’re the ones saying stupid, clumsy, fat, ugly—whatever the bullies might say.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“You can experience trauma without getting stuck as the victim forever. You can choose to work the shit and rebuild yourself, or you can sit in the ruins and mourn forever.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“If I hadn’t already said yes, and loved him to pieces, I’d have told him not only no, but hell no.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“She was tiny, less than five feet, but somehow didn’t seem that small; attitude can make up for inches.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Some well-meaning citizens had gotten freak shows closed down, but all the people who had protested and felt morally superior about it had other jobs. They could go out in the world and be “normal”; the “freaks” that they’d put out of work didn’t always have that option. Sometimes the freak show is your only option, and sometimes it’s the only place where you feel safe and okay. I really wish the “normal” people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn’t give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“is it too much to ask for a little romance?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“sex was like money in the bank; if you made regular and sizable deposits, you earned more interest. Jean-Claude had earned a lot of interest over the years.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“I haven’t made anyone my hyena to call yet, Kane, did you remember that? One of the things I learned from the Mother of All Darkness was how to break the bonds between vampires and their servants. I could just take you from Asher, bind you to me, and thanks to the ardeur I would be your exception, Kane. You’d fuck me, because you’d crave me like a drug.” “No . . . lies.” “Oh, I’m not lying. Why tell a lie when the truth is so much more terrible?” “Bitch.” “Oh, Kane, you can do better than that.” “He’ll never . . . top you . . . again if you hurt me.” “Narcissus is going to kill Asher if he can, so he won’t be topping, or fucking, anyone.” “He loves Asher.” “You know, I think he does, but Asher never loves the people who love him the most; he always chases the ones who don’t want him, haven’t you figured that out yet?” “He loves me enough to . . . do this.” I nodded. “Yes, he does, because in you he’s finally found someone more problematic, more jealous, more of a shit, than he is—it’s only taken him six, seven hundred years to find someone who exemplifies his own worst traits. He’ll keep you close, Kane, I don’t know why, but he sees something in you he wants.” Kane swallowed, and his eyes were able to look at mine again. I got up still nude and left him lying on the floor with my towel curled up beside him. “You and Asher deserve each other, Kane, you really do.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“You’re just jealous.” “Of what, of you? Of you and Asher? I’m still having sex and bondage with Asher, because you’re vanilla. You’re a fucking freak emotionally, but in the bedroom you’re the gay male equivalent of missionary position with the lights off.” “Asher didn’t say that about me.” “If you weren’t too tame in bed for him, Kane, he wouldn’t still be fucking me and Nathaniel, and Jean-Claude.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“the law is enforced the way the law is written; it’s not about true justice, it’s about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice