W. D. Hamilton Quotes
Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.
If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.
When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.
Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.
Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
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.
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.
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.
Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.
If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.
That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both
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.
No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.
Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
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.
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.
You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.
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.
You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.
who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.