W. D. Hamilton Quotes

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

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

Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too

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

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

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

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

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.

I never said I was consistent.

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

You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

You can never have too much coffee”, I said He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.

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

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

People go away and they don't come back.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

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

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

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

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.