Laurell K. Hamilton citations

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.”

“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?”

“Vampires are people too!”

“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.”

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

“Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“[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.”

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

“If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.”

“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.”