Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

Because everything worth having hurts.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

People go away and they don't come back.

I 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

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.

So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.