Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didnt know anything for a long time

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Theres Only so much emotional super glue in a persons soul, that everything just stays broken.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; dont help them by doing the job yourself.

-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. 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 knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

Why is everything always my decision? I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else.Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

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 moved me much, because Id always felt that if they swept me off my feet theyd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. Id rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

when you live forever and dont age, it gives you time to hope

You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. Id 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 wasnt holding my breath.

I didnt want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didnt know how to do that.

Never trust people who smile constantly. Theyre either selling something or not very bright.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, hes not starting over on the paperwork.

One thing Ive learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies thatll eat your eyeballs if youre not paying attention.