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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

“My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Anita after a zombie attack
Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Laughing Corpse (1994)

“Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked.
"Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked.
Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

Smile , Shoe , Night

“Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Love , Fight

“Knock your bad self out.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Home , Soul

“You awful hard to kill, Anita.'

'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Time

“I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Men , Sex , Thinking

“Because all bad little vampires see me in the end”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Kiss the Dead

Source: Kiss the Dead

“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Life , Revenge , Dead

“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

Source: Flirt

“Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

Way

“Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

Evil , Time

“I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Fear

“I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

World , Forgetting

“I am always sincere, ma petite, even when I lie." - Jean Claude”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Variant: I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.
Source: The Killing Dance

Lie , Sincerity

“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart…. it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Caress of Twilight

Source: A Caress of Twilight

Heart

“Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Sex , Guy , Time

“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,… It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”

Laurell K. Hamilton
People , Evil

“Monsters Beware Here Be Dragons”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Strange Candy

“Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Titus to Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Lunatic Cafe (1996)

People

“After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Musings of Princess Meredith about her aunt, Queen Andais; p. 357
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Success , Happiness

“No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita, to Ronnie, referring to her were-rat boyfriend Louie; p. 197
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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)

“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

“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

“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

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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)

“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

“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

“I hate to waste a really good threat.”

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Hate

“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 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

“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