Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

You just wanted to walk in front of me so Id have to stare at your butt

And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, You are a fucking psycho bitch and I hate you.

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes theyre real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita

Let’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; they’re keeping you safe from me.

Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.

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

“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.”

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

“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.”

“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 didnt bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.”

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

“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”

“Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ”

“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”

“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”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“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.”