Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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“Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake”

“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”

“And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.”

“I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.”

“The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.
-Merry”

“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”

“I am not a morning person.”

“I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”

“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”

“Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.”

“He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.”

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Animators Inc., where our motto was.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“Pretend I asked, now answer the question…”

“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.”

“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.”

“They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

“To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”