Laurell K. Hamilton

Quotes

• “She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the s...”
• “He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound...”
• “trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking ...”
• “Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman...”
• “Watching St John rock his wife's body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could...”
• “I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never mov...”
• “Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake...”
• “Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big ...”
• “I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyf...”
• “Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person...”
• “Since we’re made in God’s image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an “atta boy,” an out-loud, in-your-head “...”
• “There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you tha...”
• “Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the...”
• “Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the s...”
• “It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and th...”
• “Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the f...”
• “I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in th...”
• “I'm sorry I have issues with my boyfriend doing other men. I'm sorry I have issues with me doing other men. Why was I al...”
• “Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for...”
• “There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was alittle boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That...”
• “He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a ma...”
• “I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could in...”
• “Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just anoth...”
• “The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the ...”
• “Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who h...”
• “Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice....”
• “You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward."He smiled. "I don't lie to you.""Really," I said.The smile beca...”
• “Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what ...”
• “Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if ...”
• “I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really...”
• “The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated ...”
• “The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires...”
• “What do you want?’'I want to play,’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but y...”
• “Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the on...”
• “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 p...”
• “The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just...”
• “I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seductio...”
• “I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a porn...”
• “Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the botto...”
• “Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself...”
• “I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a ...”
• “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...”
• “Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great...”
• “And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucki...”
• “Let’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; th...”
• “Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is bett...”
• “All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hid...”
• “It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tel...”
• “Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with....”
• “I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know ho...”