Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (261 quotes, page 3)

Variant: Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Source: Bullet

“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“You can never have too much coffee”, I said
He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

“If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow”

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“I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”

Laurell K. Hamilton

“Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

“Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

“How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“He's no more human than I am, ma petite."
At least I'm not dead."
That can be remedied.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Lunatic Cafe

Source: The Lunatic Cafe

“You're up to something," I said.
He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?"
"Yeah, you”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“Animators Inc., where our motto was.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other people.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Lunatic Cafe

Source: The Lunatic Cafe

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita's musings on knives; unidentified edition, pp. 304-305
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't met a trophy wife, maybe I'm wrong. 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. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“You don't smoke do you?"
"No, why?"
"They're afraid of fire."
"Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes."
I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“Pretend I asked, now answer the question…”

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“True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity, like a vicious version of Athena.”