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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  

✵ 19. February 1963
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Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

“The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

“You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

“I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens, and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

Source: A Stroke of Midnight

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.”
“I thought you'd chase cars,” I said.
He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

Source: Flirt

“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”

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“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“Vampires are people too!”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“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”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Danse Macabre (2006), Chapter 1, pp. 4-5
Context: [Talking to friend Veronica, Anita Blake worries she may be pregnant. ]
Ronnie: I could ask, who's the father, but that's just creepy. If you are, then it's this little tiny, microscopic lump of cells. It's not a baby. It's not a person, not yet.
Anita: We'll have to disagree on that one.
Ronnie: You're pro-choice.
Anita: Yep, I am, but I also believe that abortion is taking a life. I agree women have the right to choose, but I also think that it's still taking a life.
Ronnie: That's like saying you're pro-choice and pro-life. You can't be both.
Anita: I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.