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Laurell K. Hamilton

Birthdate: 19. February 1963

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.

Her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police, which includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. Six million copies of Anita Blake novels are in print. Her Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts. Both of these fantasy series follow their protagonists as they gain in power and deal with the dangers of worlds in which creatures of legend live.

Hamilton is generally considered one of the most influential writers in the history of paranormal fiction. Several media outlets, including USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and Time have identified her works as significant contributions to the development of the urban-fantasy genre. Wikipedia

Works

Bullet
Bullet
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Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures
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Narcissus in Chains
Narcissus in Chains
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Cerulean Sins
Cerulean Sins
Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Incubus Dreams
Laurell K. Hamilton
The Killing Dance
The Killing Dance
Laurell K. Hamilton
Obsidian Butterfly
Obsidian Butterfly
Laurell K. Hamilton
Skin Trade
Skin Trade
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Circus of the Damned
Circus of the Damned
Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
The Laughing Corpse
Laurell K. Hamilton
A Kiss of Shadows
A Kiss of Shadows
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Bloody Bones
Bloody Bones
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A Stroke of Midnight
A Stroke of Midnight
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Blue Moon
Blue Moon
Laurell K. Hamilton
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings
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Hit List
Hit List
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Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre
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Flirt
Flirt
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Blood Noir
Blood Noir
Laurell K. Hamilton
The Harlequin
The Harlequin
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Affliction
Affliction
Laurell K. Hamilton
The Lunatic Cafe
The Lunatic Cafe
Laurell K. Hamilton
Mistral's Kiss
Mistral's Kiss
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A Lick of Frost
A Lick of Frost
Laurell K. Hamilton
Kiss the Dead
Kiss the Dead
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Micah
Micah
Laurell K. Hamilton
A Caress of Twilight
A Caress of Twilight
Laurell K. Hamilton

Quotes Laurell K. Hamilton

„I had been too long away from the nobility; I had forgotten how silly even the best of them could be.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Source: Geese in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) Sword and Sorceress 8, p. 40

„I could almost smell her fear… Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicker, whatever. It was a rule for playing with the big boys.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Laughing Corpse (1994)

Women, Men, Fear, Boy

„A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampire Requiem, to Anita; p. 311
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Way, Thinking, Personality

„I hate to waste a really good threat.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)

Hate

„We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)

Hate

„You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampire Jean-Claude, to Anita; p. 176
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Love

„There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Musings of Anita Blake; p. 627
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

„Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Unidentified page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Heart, Personality

„The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way," Wicked said.
"Yeah," I said, "it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Danse Macabre (2006), Chapter 26, p. 250

People, Way, Idea

„You cannot 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.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

musings of Princess Meredith; p. 41
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Death, World, Smile, Way

„Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Musings of Anita Blake; p. 518
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Sleep, Evil, Help, Night

„Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Laughing Corpse (1994)

„Samuel smiled at me. "Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?"
I nodded, and frowned. "They're important to everybody."
He laughed. "Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions."“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Danse Macabre (2006), Chapter 17, p. 151

People, Smile, Decision, Freedom

„Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child.
Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband?
Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004), p. 198

Life, People

„That feeling of terrible emptiness when I touched him was like going into a house that you thought would be full of people you loved, only to find it empty, and even the furniture taken. You walk from room to room, hearing your footsteps echo on the naked floors. Your voice bounces back from the empty walls, where the lines of beloved photos still show like the line around a body at a crime scene. He was gone.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

memories of Princess Meredith about encountering the body of her father, Essus; p. 40
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Love, People, Feeling, Photo

„I won't die, eaten alive," he said. He put a fresh clip in his gun. I'll do you first if you want, or you can do it yourself.
Save your bullets, Edward. I lifted a can of gasoline in one hand.
What are you planning? he asked.
I'm going to set the shed on fire. I splashed gasoline on the door. The smell was sharp and tugged at the back of my throat.
With us inside? he asked.
Yes.
I'd rather shoot myself, if it's all the same to you.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Edward and Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)

„There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Musings of Anita Blake; pp. 383-384
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Love, Hurt

„You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Edward on Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)

Life

„He wanted to feed the hunger of his skin. The hunger of his body not so much for orgasm but for that need to be held close and tight, that need we all have to press our nakedness against someone else's.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita Blake's observation about vampire servant Damian; p. 81
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Hunger

„I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid…“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

Smile, Nature, Hurt

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