Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

Hope is a lying bitch.

Who hit you? Why, so you can go beat him up? One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection. I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude. He hurt you. And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew, I said.

Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.

I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than pleasured. I feel like a child in the dark who knows the monsters are under the bed. I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies. - Jean-Claude

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

You can never have too much coffee", I said He turned and smiled at me. "You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD'ed on your level of caffeine.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

He's no more human than I am, ma petite. At least I'm not dead. That can be remedied.

You're up to something, I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. Moi? Yeah, you

Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.

Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?