Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

You are an irritating son of a bitch." "Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you dont do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee. What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee, I said. more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.