Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

You look wonderful, Jason said.No compliments, Jason. Im uncomfortable enough in the lingerie.Then by all means take it off.

Believe this, Bitch.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

I sounded like Horton the Elephant. A person is a person no matter how small. What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?

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.

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

Im not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard. I held up my hand before she could interrupt. But Im not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

It wasnt just my beasts hunger, but Jean-Claudes blood thirst and Richards craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating its own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.

Thats what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.

We arent the good guys, Anita. Were the necessary guys. -Edward

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they dont tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you dont understand that you can win, but thats its not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, its a lot scarier to go hunting bears.

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.

Hed kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateurs reasons. Of course, youll be just as dead.

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 you want a piece of it.’Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

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 they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

Shed been a good nurse, and now shed never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. Itll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldnt have harmed. Sometimes its not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece its going to be.