Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.

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.

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.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

I`m not a morning person.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

You can never have too much coffee”, I said He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

I 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.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

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.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

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?