Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

“Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.”

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

“Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”

“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; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”

“Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.”

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”

“Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."
It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.”

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”

“Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”

“Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.”

“Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”

“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”

“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”

“When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed”

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

“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”

“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”

“People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.”

“I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

“Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”

“Friends don't count the cost of favors.”

“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.”

“Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?”

“Never argue when you're winning.”

“If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.”

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

“I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.”

“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.”

“Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

“I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was.”

“one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.”

“Death didn't 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.”

“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'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.”

“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.”

“You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."
"Then by all means take it off.”

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

“What is it about her that is so goddamned special?”

“No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”

“He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
Yeah, those are the words.”

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

“I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.”

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?"
"I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said.
"I rest my case.”

“Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.”

“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”

“I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.”

“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

“Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.”

“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”

“The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake”