Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else. I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.

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

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him so much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

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

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.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

It is the wee hours of the morning, ma petite . The room service menu is somewhat limited. Jason has donated blood twice to me tonight; he needed protein. Jean-Claude smiled. It was either take-out, or he could eat Larry. I thought you'd prefer take-out.

I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host. (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill. (Anita Blake)

You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.

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.

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

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.

You look like shit. Jason smiled, without opening his eyes. You sweet-talker.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard I said. Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves he said. I smiled. Yeah.