Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

I didn't look back, and I didn't try to kiss him good-bye. I think if I'd tried to touch him, he 'd have hurt me. I don't mean struck me, but there are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

never mistake kindness for weakness, Asher. It's not the same thing.

I enjoy killing people with you. Could that count as a date?" I shook my head. "No, nothing illegal counts." He sighed. "Dating is harder than I thought it would be." "Always," I said.

He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright." - Laurell K. Hamilton

A hundred years later and someone gazes upon you as if you were heaven itself, but you know in your heart of hearts that it's not heaven you're offering them, it's hell.

If what I felt had been an actual wound, I'd have been bleeding to death.

I still play in corporate America. I protect the suits that want flashy muscle. Something exotic to impress their friends about what a big shot they are. You do the knife act on command? I asked. He shrugged. Sometimes. I hope it pays well, I said. He smiled. It either pays well or I don't do it. I may be their token Indian but I'm a rich token Indian.

I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing.

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.

This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.

It's been my experience, Requiem, that people become more of who they are in extremes, both good and bad. 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.' He

My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.

You saved me because you could not bear the thought of leaving me behind." He touched my face, very gently. "Not from a sense of right and wrong, but because you are just that tenderhearted.

Don't make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what's best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don't like their choices.

Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.

nudity meant just without clothes on, neither good nor bad.

Thanks, but I don't drink, she said as she ignored his arm and breezed past him. I'm just here to get laid.

No, but if something smells this good, or tastes amazing, then we were taught to honor it with our attention. It's like a compliment to the Creator for all the wonderful ingredients that came together to make something.

Since we're made in God's image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an "atta boy," an out-loud, in-your-head "Thank you, great job on that sunset and that platypus was a brilliant fun idea." Maybe that's why we're supposed to pray the way we do, because without it God would be lonely.

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.

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.

want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.