distant mountains. They looked very close, but it’s always been my experience that mountains are seldom as close as they appear. They’re like dreams, distant things to set your sights on, but not truly to be trusted to be there when you
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“learned a long time ago that being physically intimidating didn’t keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone’s heart is the same size.”
― Hit List
― Hit List
“the touching wasn’t sexual, it was comfort, the warm pile of puppies, and everyone in that pile loved me in their way. Maybe it wasn’t the way I wanted to be loved, but love is love and sometimes I think I’d thrown away more love than most people ever get a chance at. I was trying to be more careful lately.”
― Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Collection: Books 6-10
― Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Collection: Books 6-10
“He looked over her head at me, and for just a moment he let the laughter slip away. He let me see in those cavernous eyes that he did like her, he liked her lots, but not in a good way. He let me see in that strangely handsome face that he was thinking about her not without her clothes on, but eventually without her skin. He let me see the darkness in his eyes for a blink or two, and then the woman touched his arm, made him look back down at her. I realized that with the height difference she hadn’t seen his eyes, hadn’t seen what he’d shown me. Fuck.”
― Hit List
― Hit List
“Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment.”
― Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15
― Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15
“Seeing his stuff with my stuff gives me a full cupboard feeling.” “A what?” she asked. “Getting a T-shirt out and realizing that it’s one I bought for him because it brings out the green in his eyes gives me that I’ve got my favorite foods in the cupboard and it’s a winter night, and I don’t have to go out in it feeling. I’ve got everything I need at home.”
― Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15
― Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15
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