Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

They be crazier than we are.

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.

You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

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.

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

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

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.

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

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

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

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.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

People go away and they don't come back.

Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.