W. D. Hamilton Quotes

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

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.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

The size of your promise defines the size of your life.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

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

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

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.

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

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

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

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

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

Vampires are people too!

Because everything worth having hurts.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

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

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

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

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.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.