Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you. - Jean-Claude

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

It means black kitten, I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten? They're wererats, Ares, I said. He frowned at me. They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

He balled his hand into a fist. You are such a bitch. Woof, woof, I said.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing .

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

If you're alive, don't move, if you're dead, don't worry about it.

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Pretend I asked, now answer the question...

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

You don't smoke do you? No, why? They're afraid of fire. Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…