Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years," I said.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

Because everything worth having hurts.

Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

I never said I was consistent.

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body. - Jean-Claude

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

When in doubt, shut the fuck up.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

More than life, more than honor, I love thee. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee. More than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.