Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

We're making a list." "And checking it twice." Edward shook his head.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

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.

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.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

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

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

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

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

Can the sarcasm, ' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil, ... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

who me?"anita blake seriesby: Laurell K Hamilton

I know, I know. I rescued him and he’s bonded to me like a baby duck.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

You look wonderful", Jason said."No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie.""Then by all means take it off.

That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.

What do you want?’'I want to play, ’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

If you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)

You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita