Laurell K. Hamilton

“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”

“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”

“Hope is a lying bitch.”

“For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, but I think it was desire for sidhe magic in the goblin bloodline more than true desire for me. Oh, Kurag would fuck me if I'd let him, but that wasn't much of a compliment. Kurag would probably have fucked anything if it held still long enough.”

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

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

“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.”

“A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.”

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

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

“...but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm.”

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

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

“Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”

“Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

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

“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.”

“I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”

“I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.”

“Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".”

“How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?”

“she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita”

“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”

“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”

“There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.”

“who me?"anita blake seriesby: Laurell K Hamilton”

“It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.”

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

“Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.”

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

“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.”

“I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.”

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

“You look like shit." Jason smiled, without opening his eyes. "You sweet-talker.”

“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.”

“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…”

“I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all.""Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!”

“We're making a list.""And checking it twice." Edward shook his head.”

“Is your hair as soft as all those curls look?""No.”

“It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.”

“He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.”

“Resulta turbador que alguien se considere mal tipo y le dé igual. Atenta contra todo lo sagrado. Se nos enseña, por encima de todo, a ser amables y cultivar la amistad. Alguien que prescinde de todo eso es un individualista y un peligro en potencia”

“Mimo psa je kniha nejlepší přítel člověka. Uvnitř psa je moc velká tma na čtení.”

“If you are not careful, their beauty will become both heaven and hell, you will betray every oath, abandon every loyalty, give up your heart, your mind, your body, and your immortal soul to have them near you but one more night. Then one cold night, a hundred years after the passion is spent, and nothing but ashes remain, you look up and see someone gazing at you, and you know that look, you've seen it before. A hundred years later and someone gazes upon you as if you were heaven istself, but you know in your heart of hearts that it's not heaven you're offering them, it's hell.”

“Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan."I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one."He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies.""When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.”

“I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans.Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”