Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Knock your bad self out.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

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

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard. I held up my hand before she could interrupt. But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

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.

but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm.

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out." So it is the sanctity of life you cling to? I nodded. "That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.

He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious. Just what I wanted to hear. So how are you getting here? My private jet. Of course, he had a private jet. When can you be here? I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower. I prefer ma petite to flower.

He's a senior in high school Bernardo. Jean-Claude is his legal guardian and had to enroll him in school. He comes home with homework and shit and then he wants to cuddle and have sex. It weirds me the fuck out.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

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

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.

I am always sincere, ma petite, even when I lie. - Jean Claude

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

Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

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.

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.