Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

You really do want everyone around you to be happy, don't you?" "Yeah, doesn't everyone want that for their friends?" He smiled then, and shook his head. "No, Anita. No, they don't." "If you really care for people, you want them to be happy, Damian; otherwise you don't actually care for them." "You don't think like any other woman I've ever met.

Pami?taj, nikt bez twego przyzwolenia nie mo?e sprawi?, ?e poczujesz si? gorsza. To s?owa Eleanor Roosevelt. ?yj? zgodnie z tym mottem.

You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

I could drink a pot of caffeine and sleep like a baby. It doesn't keep me awake or make me jumpy. It just tastes better.

it just proved that I think like an American. Violence is dandy, but God forbid you show sex on stage.

had enough dancers in my life, from exotic to professional ballet, to know that they all moved, even when they thought they were standing still, as if their bodies couldn't help but make grace out of the noise of everyday life.

What you'll enjoy from someone you're in love with just hits you as clingy from someone you think of more as a sex buddy.

An absolute monarch who believes in free will, isn't that against the rules? Onilwyn asked. No, I said, my face buried against Adair's skin, it's not. Not against my rules. My voice was beginning to drag with that edge of sleep. I think I will like your rules, Onilwyn said and his voice, too, was growing heavy. The rules, yes, Rhys said, but the housework is a bitch.

I got my shoulder holster complete with Browning Hi-Power out of the top desk drawer and slipped it on. Since I'd stopped wearing my suit jacket in the office, I'd put the gun in the drawer, but outside the office and always after dark I wore a gun. Most of the creatures that had scarred me up were dead. The majority I'd done personally. Silver-plated bullets are a wonderful thing.

Who are you?" My voice came out a little breathy. "I'm Micah Callahan.

Hot rage runs through you, and is close kin to hot passion, but cold rage, that is close kin to hate.

It does hurt my ego that you sit there all itty-bitty and cute as hell, and you must be more dangerous than I will ever be.

Rage had been almost my only emotion once, and it was still comforting in that dysfunctional way in which people will prefer something unpleasant, but familiar, to something pleasant, but unfamiliar.

I made myself say the name, at least in my own head. My therapist said I felt guilty about his death. Damn straight I did.

The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years. I let the paramedic lead me away. Tears trickling down my cheeks. I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys. Jesus.

I'd call it a gift, at least until I had to take Nicky home with me, and then I was going to have some explaining to do. He followed me home, can I keep him? had never worked for puppies when I was a child, and it seemed totally inadequate for a whole human being. The

I love you," I said, and this time I meant it. I could see the smile that went with the tone of his voice as he said, "I know, and I love you more." I smiled. "I love you most." Nathaniel's voice came on the phone as if Micah were holding it out to him: "I love you mostest.

comfort zones were more like prison bars; they protected you, but they also trapped you. I didn't want to be trapped, not even by myself.

The joys of the flesh are a blessing to be shared, not a curse to be guarded against.

you either kill your enemies or you leave them the fuck alone.

Apparently the Irish Fey answered direct questions, but what you didn't ask, they didn't answer, even if logically it was connected.

Smart isn't just sexy; it's necessary for something this complicated to work.

Ma petite.' That was all, just my nickname, but it seemed to hold years of I love yous. The