Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself." "Why?" I said. "If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.

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

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

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

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

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

Pretend I asked, now answer the question.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

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.

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

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

Knock your bad self out.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Never argue when you're winning.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.” “I thought you'd chase cars,” I said. He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

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

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.

They be crazier than we are.

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

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.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

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

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.