Laurell K. Hamilton

“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.”

“Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'- Chang Bibi to Anita”

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

“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.”

“Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.”

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”

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

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?""I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said."I rest my case.”

“I don't do doomed.”

“No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.”

“the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.” You have to love Anita Blake… ...”

“I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.”

“You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword”

“They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”

“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.”

“Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita”

“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

“Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.”

“I thought we were the good guys,” he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that 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.”

“Vampires are people too!”

“He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination.”

“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”

“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”

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

“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“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.”

“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.”

“What had my scary thought been? That Olaf was sincere. In some crazy,pathological way, he like-liked me. As in boyfriend-liked me. Not just for fucking or slaughter, but maybe, just maybe, he actually wanted to date me like one human being to another. He seemed to have no clue how to interact with a woman in a way that wasn't terrifying, but he was trying. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, he was trying.”

“Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.”

“Je rêve de toi.”

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

“a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior highprom...The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.”

“Women may get to wear lots ofpretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes.Anita Blake Vampire Hunter”

“You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter”

“The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.-Merry”

“Watching St John rock his wife's body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could see the door, the hallway, and the stairs as far as the landing. St John started singing in a strange, broken voice. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he was singing. It was 'You are so Beautiful”

“Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.”

“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

“Never interrupt when you're winning.”

“Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.”

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

“When in doubt, shut the fuck up.”

“murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel”

“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

“The police await us, our men stand in the cold, and you don't like your coat! Such delicate sensibilities for someone who just fucked a stranger on the floor in front of us all!”

“What's your name?"Donald."Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.”

“I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.”

“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.”