Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes page 4

“In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.”

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

Source: A Stroke of Midnight

“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”

“Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.”

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”

“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“Larry is back in town… The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“I never said I was consistent.”

“Because everything worth having hurts.”

“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

“What was I supposed to say?….. did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita”

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.”

Laurell K. Hamilton Mistral's Kiss

Source: Mistral's Kiss

“Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

“They be crazier than we are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

“If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.”

Source: Circus of the Damned

“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.”

Source: Circus of the Damned

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”

“There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body."
- Jean-Claude”

Source: Circus of the Damned

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“People go away and they don't come back.”

“No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.”

Source: Circus of the Damned

“This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self.”

Source: Skin Trade

“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”

Source: Beauty

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.”

“Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.”

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

Source: Skin Trade

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

“Hesitation will get you killed.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

“In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.”

“Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.”

Source: Skin Trade

“One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.”

“Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself."
"Why?" I said.
"If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.”

Source: Skin Trade

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

“My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

Source: Flirt

“I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward”