Laurell K. Hamilton
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.Collection: Stupid
Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.Collection: Hate
We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -EdwardCollection: Guy
It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.Collection: Nice
I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?Collection: Believe
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.Collection: Writing
When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.Collection: Children
I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.Collection: Sex
What is it about her that is so goddamned special?Collection: Special
Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.Collection: Love Is
I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.Collection: Country
One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.Collection: Vampire
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.Collection: Coffee
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.Collection: Heart
Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.Collection: Sometimes
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.Collection: Clothes
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.Collection: Toys
When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.Collection: Gone
Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.Collection: Animal
Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.Collection: Men
His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.Collection: Hate
I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)Collection: Giving
If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.Collection: Brave
Friends don't count the cost of favors.Collection: Cost
A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -AnitaCollection: Masters
Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.Collection: Assuming
You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.Collection: Mean
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.Collection: Regret
He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Healing
Never argue when you're winning.Collection: Winning
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham MaslowCollection: Nails
Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Teenage
A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.Collection: Vampire
Heroes don't get anything but dead.Collection: Hero
Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.Collection: Fear
Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.Collection: Fear
The only good enemy is a dead enemy.Collection: Enemy
It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.Collection: Monsters
Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.Collection: Lying
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.Collection: Lying
So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.Collection: Who I Am
Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.Collection: Lasts
Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do itCollection: Sex
Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.Collection: Guarantees
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.Collection: Self
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.Collection: Sleep