Laurell K Hamilton Quotes

I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Harvey tried to come up behind me, but I stepped back towards the couch, so I could face him. They were trying to circle like sharks. Phillip was staring at me, hard. Right; I was supposed to be enjoying myself, not acting like they all had communicable diseases. Which ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Who hit you?"
"Why, so you can go beat him up?"
"One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection."
"I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude."
"He hurt you."
"And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I am always sincere, ma petite, even when I lie. - Jean Claude ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Sexier than a silk teddy. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The other cops were almost evenly divided between being scared by what they'd seen and being so impressed that it was almost worse, because I wasn't sure what they'd expect me to be able to do next time. Aimes hadn't been the only one who saw the white-shadowed outline of wings. I told them it was an answer to prayer, not me personally. I finally told one overly solicitous uniform, 'Trust me, I'm no angel.'
Nicky started laughing and couldn't seem to stop.
'Yuk it up, lion boy.'
That made him laugh harder, until he had to lean against the wall with tears trailing down from his eye. At least his laughing stopped any more weird theological questions; they just couldn't seem to talk about angels with this big, muscled bad-ass guy laughing his ass off beside me. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

[...] prejudice doesn't go away just because a law changes. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

A challenge forever," I said. "For all eternity," he whispered. I let him draw me down into a kiss, and part of me was still not sure if I'd done a good thing or a bad thing. But just for tonight, I didn't care. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You're the scariest motherfucker in the room. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Who me?
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They thought I was a vampire, and it had all been an act. I stared at Jean-Claude's smiling face and the matching scars: his chest, my arm. Jean-Claude's hand pulled me down into a bow. As the applause finally began to fade, Jean-Claude whispered, "We need to talk, Anita. Your friend Catherine's life depends on your actions." I met his eyes and said, "I killed the things that gave me this scar." He smiled broadly, showing just a hint of fang. "What a lovely coincidence. So did I. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You are an abomination before God.
Jesus loves you too, I said smiling. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Because everything worth having hurts. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He pulled up a chair and sat down by the bed, smiling at me. It was a nice smile. "So you're a werewolf." He nodded. "How did it happen?" He stared down at the floor, then up. His face looked so solemn, I was sorry I'd asked. I was expecting some great tale of a savage attack survived. "I got a bad batch of lycanthropy serum." "You what?" "You heard me." He seemed embarrassed. "You got a bad shot?" "Yes." My smile got wider and wider. "It's not funny," he said. I shook my head. "Not at all." I knew my eyes were shiny, and it was all I could do not to laugh out loud. "You've got to admit it's nicely ironic." He sighed. "You're going to hurt yourself. Go ahead and laugh." I did. I laughed until it hurt, and Richard joined in. Laughter is contagious, too. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

shook my head. "This is too easy." "Don't worry. Something will go wrong soon." He continued down the corridor, and I followed. It took me three steps to realize Edward had made a joke. The ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The short one with the scar shifted from foot to foot. "Yeah, this is Russell," he motioned at the Indian, "and this is Newt." I almost said, "Newt," aloud, but figured we had enough problems without me being a smart-ass. And people say I don't know when to keep my mouth shut. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

I didn't want to hear this. "What the hell are you talking about?" "Necromancer with a chaser of werewolf; a drink to make any vampire giddy." He giggled. Jean-Claude never giggled. I ignored him, if you can ignore an intoxicated vampire. "Jason, can you stand?" "I think so." His voice was thick, heavy but not sleepy, more the languor after sex. Maybe I was glad my bite had hurt. "Larry?" Larry walked over to us, glancing at Magnus, gun naked in his hand. He didn't look happy. "Can we trust him?" "We're going to," I said. "Help me stand up, and let's get out of here before fangface busts a gut." Jean-Claude was doubled over with laughter. He seemed to think "fangface" was outrageously funny. Ye gods. Larry ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

It was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Most of the monsters ... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

We call them survivors, but once the vampires get you, the person you were dies, like any traumatized part of you never leaves that room, that car, that moment, and you walk forward a ghost of your former self. You rebuild yourself over the years, but the person you were isn't the person you become. The great bad thing happens, and you become a ghost in your own life, and then you become flesh and blood and remake your life, but the ghosts of what happened don't go away completely. They wait for you in low moments, and then they wail at you, shaking their chains in your face and trying to strangle you with them. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears". ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd been chunky in junior high, close to fat, so I knew what I was talking about. So that no teenager out there will get the wrong idea and go all anorexic on me, I was a size thirteen in jeans, and that was at five foot nothing. See, I really was chunky. I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size five. Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts. I ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

There are pains too deep for words, but there's touch to say what words can't. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to." "Does everyone pretty much think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?" "It's all you let people see," he said, "until now. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Olaf whirled the club as if getting the feel for it. It also made the cops back up. He looked at me. "I'll take the head."
I pulled the knife out of Tlaloci's hand. He wasn't going to be needing it anymore. "I'll take the heart." I
walked toward him, blade in hand. The cops kept backing away from us.
"You take the head first."
"Why?"
"I'm afraid if I take the knife out while the body's still intact that he'll sit up and start breathing again."
Olaf raised eyebrows at me. "You are not joking me?"
"I never joke about vampires," I said.
He gave me another long look. "You would have made a good man."
I took the compliment because that's what it was, maybe the best compliment he'd ever given a woman. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Had Richard really proposed? Had I really said yes? Surely not. I had said yes. Shit. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Great. I didn't say thank you, because it seemed wrong. I wanted to call her a bitch and shoot her between the eyes, but then I would have had to shoot Enzo, too. And how would I explain that to the police? She was breaking no laws. Dammit. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You really shouldn't lean against a wall and try to look tough unless you can cross your arms. Ruins the effect. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Nathaniel kissed me and then Micah good-bye. Normally he would have kissed Micah more thoroughly, because he might not get another chance for hours, but we'd started doing less of the tonsil-cleaning kisses in front of Matthew - not just between the men, but between me and the men, or anyone and anyone. Why? Because Matthew liked to imitate, and he'd gotten sent home with a note from preschool. We'd been left having to explain that certain kinds of kissing was grownup kissing, and he had to be a grownup to do it. He'd accepted our reasoning and filed it away on the same list as driving a car, drinking liquor, or being able to lift weights. It made perfect sense to him that it was just one more thing he wasn't old enough to do, yet. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He gave a little chuckle, but his eyes stayed wary and he did another glance around at all the men. His gaze came back to me and he showed me those suspicious cop eyes that said clearly I was full of shit and he didn't believe me. Didn't believe what, you might ask? He was a ten-year-plus veteran police officer; he didn't believe a damn thing that anyone told him. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped."
Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments."
Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. "Then it feels good. We can't really control what flips our switch; don't judge it, Anita, and just accept it."
I wanted to argue, but it would have been beyond stupid to argue with the two sociopaths in my life. "Why do I have moral quandary questions with the two of you?"
"Because you don't really have moral quandaries about violence, Anita, but you're afraid of being judged for enjoying it, so you only bring it to the two people in your life who won't judge you."
I wanted to argue with Edward, but I couldn't. "Well, fuck. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

It was basically a legal version of the sheriff standing out in front of the saloon in the Old West and saying, 'Let's form a posse and go get these guys. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Whether vampires should have been declared 'alive' and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death - defining what life is, and what it isn't, and how far we'll go to protect, or take, it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.
-Merry ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The three of you have sex together a lot, don't you?" she asked.
"He's my best friend," Jason said.
"You know, most guys watch sports with their best friends," J.J. said.
"I don't like sports. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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 ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He threw one long, leather-clad leg over the couch arm and slithered over it to his feet. It was like watching a lap dance without a lap. To my knowledge, Jean-Claude had never stripped at Guilty Pleasures, the vampire strip club he owned, but he could have. He had a way of making even the smallest movement sexual and vaguely obscene. You always felt like he was thinking wicked thoughts, things you couldn't say in mixed company. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

All six of them sat on either side of the long oval conference table, strung out like strong, handsome beads on the string of my love. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway? ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The Ulfric had waded into the pack with my blood in his hands. They surrounded him, touching him, caressing, begging for him to share. He dipped his lingers in the nearly empty cup and held them down for the wolves to lick.
Edward came to stand near me. He said nothing, just helped me put pressure on the wound, got more napkins from under the bar and a clean cloth to tie it tight. Our eyes met, and he just shook his head, the faintest of smiles playing on his face. Most people pay money for information. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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? ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I struggled to sit up, feeling stiff, but rested. "Where?" "Ted's house." I sat up straighter. Ted's house? Edward's house. I was finally going to get to see where Edward lived. I was going to snoop and strip some of his mystery away. If I didn't get killed, finding out Edward's secrets would make the entire trip worthwhile. If I did get killed, I'd come back and haunt Edward, see if I could make him see ghosts after all. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Why was I mad? Because he'd surprised me with a really nice hotel room. What a bastard. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Anyone who says love is free has never truly been in love. Your lover will need comfort. Your spouse will have bad days. Your child will have their heart broken, more than once and you will be expected to help pick up the pieces. Your beloved pets become a parade of joy and loss. Love costs, sometimes it costs everything you have, and sometimes it costs more. On those days you weigh the joy you gain against the pain; you weigh the energy given from the loving and the energy lost from the duties that love places upon us. Love can be the most expensive thing in the world. If it's worth it, great, but if not, then love does not conquer all, sometimes you are conquered by it. You are laid waste before the breathtaking pain of it, and crushed under the weight of it's obligations. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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 ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Yeah, I'm just a medical marvel, and I'm taking my marvelous ass home. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all."
"Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise.
"You've lied to me all these years! ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

People go away and they don't come back. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Larry is back in town ... The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

One thing I've learned about vampires
they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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