Laurell K. Hamilton

“Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto”

“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”

“Stop what? Cheering you up? Or is life supposed to stop because you did something horrible? I'll tell you the real horrible truth, Anita. No matter what you do or how bad you feel about it, life just goes on. Life doesn't give a fuck that you're sorry or upset or deranged or tormented. Life just goes on, and you gotta go on with it, or sit in the middle of the road and feel sorry for yourself. And I don't see you doing that.”

“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”

“I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.”

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

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

“They be crazier than we are.”

“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.”

“I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”

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

“I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.”

“I have lived with others more powerful than I in Belle Morte’s line for centuries, Anita. I, more than most, know just how much you must fight every night of your existence not to be consumed by their power.” He paused and then whispered so that it filled the darkened car, “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 itself, but you know in your heart of hearts that its not heaven you’re offering them, its hell.”

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

“I let Richard walk out on me. I think he’d have gone anyway, but I just sat on the floor and watched him go. I didn’t stand in his way. I figured it was his choice, and you cant hold someone if they don’t want to be held. If someone really wants to be free of you, you have to let them go. Well, fuck that, fuck that all to hell. Don’t go, Asher, please, don’t go. I love the way your hair shines in the light. I love that way you smile when you’re not trying to hide or impress anyone. I love your laughter. I love the way your voice can hold sorrow like the taste of rain. I love the way you watch Jean-Claude when he moves through a room, when you don’t think anyone’s watching, because its exactly the way I watch him. I love your eyes. I love your pain. I love you.”

“You can never have too much coffee”, I saidHe turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.”

“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”

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

“Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.”

“I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.”

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

“You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.”

“Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“I never said I was consistent.”

“If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.”

“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”

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

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

“I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.”

“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”

“Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing.”

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

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

“Pretend I asked, now answer the question...”

“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.”

“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”

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

“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.”

“I'm a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of...”

“I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last.Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.”

“I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.”

“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”

“I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.”

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

“He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.”

“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.”

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

“To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”