Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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Type: Writer, novelist

Born: February 19, 1963

Died:

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.

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Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was.

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

The truth is so often disappointing, or ugly; don't you find that, ma petite?

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

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

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

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

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

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

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

One thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

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?

You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup.

He balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said.

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.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. 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.

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

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

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.

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

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Because everything worth having hurts.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

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

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

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

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can't force him to actually do the work. You've got to be willing to work on your issues. You've got to be willing to face hard truths and fight to get better. that takes courage and force of will. (Anita)

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

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