Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

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.

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.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

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

I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork " "Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said. "Over my dead body " I said. "Eventually " he said. "Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.

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.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death. - Jean-Claude

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

He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

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.

But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.

You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.