62 Insightful Anita Blake Quotes

For fans of urban fantasy and paranormal fiction, the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton offers a captivating blend of mystery, adventure, and supernatural elements. Anita Blake, a fierce vampire hunter and necromancer, takes readers on thrilling journeys through a world teeming with creatures of the night. Her insights and reflections provide thought-provoking glimpses into the complexities of morality, power, and identity. In this compilation, we've gathered 62 of the most insightful Anita Blake quotes that capture the essence of her character and the richly detailed universe she inhabits. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, these quotes offer a compelling look into the mind of one of fiction's most intriguing heroines.

1. “Life's a bitch,” I said.“And then you die,” Larry finished for me.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

2. “Anita can speak for herself," Richard said.Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play.""And pigs fly," I said."You don't believe me?""Not hardly," I said.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

3. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

4. “I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

5. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

6. “There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

7. “Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

8. “Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

9. “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?” - Laurell K. Hamilton

10. “who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

11. “Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

12. “You look wonderful", Jason said."No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie.""Then by all means take it off.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

13. “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” - Laurell K. Hamilton

14. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

15. “I don't do doomed.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

17. “When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

19. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

20. “His dark blue shirt was plastered to his chest, covered with werewolf goop and tears. "Now we both need a bath," I said."That can be arranged.""Please, Jean-Claude, no sexual innuendo until after I'm clean.""Of course, MA PETITE. It was crude of me tonight. My apologies."I stared at him. He was being far too nice. Jean-Claude was a lot of things, but nice wasn't one of them."If you're up to something, I don't want to know about it. I can't handle any deep, dark plots tonight, okay?"He smiled and gave a low, sweeping bow, never taking his eyes off me. The way you bow on the judo mat when you're afraid the person may pound you if you look away.I shook my head. He WAS up to something. Nice to know that not everyone had suddenly become something else. One thing I could always depend on what Jean-Claude. Pain in the ass that he was, he always seemed to be there. Dependable in his own twisted way. Jean-Claude dependable? I must have been more tired than I thought.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

21. “Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.”“I thought you'd chase cars,” I said.He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

22. “Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing?” - Laurell K. Hamilton

23. “In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

24. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

25. “Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

26. “He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me.I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always kissed him hello. Of course, I was still covered in blood and other bodily fluids, and none of them were his, but he might not understand that that was why I hadn't wanted to get too close. Some of my confusion must have shown on my face, because his smile widened. He turned me around by the shoulders, gave me a little push towards the bathroom, and slapped me on the ass. "Get cleaned up, I'll take care of things here.""I can't believe that you just did that," I said."Did what?" he said, and he was grinning at me.I could probably count on one hand the number of times Micah had grinned at me. His eyes were sparkling with laughter as if it were all he could do not to let it out. I was happy to see him having a good time, really I was. But I wasn't sure what was funny, and I didn't have the courage to ask. It was probably something that would be at my expense, or something I'd just done that he found cute. I was not cute. Confused, fucked-up, bruised, but not cute. Nathaniel and Damian knew better, but as I passed Gregory, I had to say, "If you touch my ass, I will rip you a new one." I said it as I moved past him, not even pausing."You're no fun," he growled.I looked back just before I turned out of sight of him. "Oh, I'm a lot of fun, just not around you."He snarled at me. "Bitch.""Woof, woof," I said, and finally made it into the bathroom.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

27. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

28. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

29. “They be crazier than we are.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

31. “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” - Laurell K. Hamilton

32. “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.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

34. “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” - Laurell K. Hamilton

35. “She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

36. “You either pay as you go with Raina, or you end up owing her, and owing comes with interest, and the interest is hell to pay.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

37. “She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

38. “I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

39. “All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

40. “I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

41. “It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

42. “Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

43. “If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

44. “...on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

45. “Fakat beni rahatsız eden bir şey vardı."Kurbanların aileler oldugunu söylemiştin, buna çocuklar da dahil mi?" "Garip bir şekilde, hayır" dedi. "Şey, böyle küçük nimetler için Tanrı'ya şükretmeliyiz,"dedim "Her zaman çocuklara karşı bir zayıflığın vardı zaten,"dedi. "Ölü çocukları görmek seni rahatsız etmiyor mu?" "hayır" dedi.” - Laurell K. Hamilton, Karacamdan Kelebek

46. “I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

47. “I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than pleasured. I feel like a child in the dark who knows the monsters are under the bed. I want to be told it will be alright, but I am far too old to believe such comforting lies."- Jean-Claude” - Laurell K. Hamilton

48. “He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious."Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?""My private jet."Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?""I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower.""I prefer ma petite to flower.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

49. “You are an irritating son of a bitch.”“Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?” - Laurell K. Hamilton

50. “He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute.- Anita Blake about Jean-Claude” - Laurell K. Hamilton

51. “I did not run to him, but I did wrap my arms around him, press my ear to his chest, hold on to him as if he were the last solid thing in the world. He stroked my hair and murmured to me in French. I understood enough to know he was glad to see me and that he thought I looked beautiful. But beyond that it was just pretty noise.It wasn't until I felt Zerbrowski behind me that I pulled away, but when Jean-Claude's hand found mine, I welcomed it.Zerbrowski was looking at me as if he'd never seen me before. "What?" It came out hostile."I've never seen you be that ... soft with anyone before."It startled me. "You've seen me kiss Richard before."He nodded. "That was lust. This is ..." He shook his head, glancing up at Jean-Claude, then back to me. "He makes you feel safe.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

52. “If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

53. “Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.”I looked up at him, and said the next line, “To war and arms I fly.”“True, a new mistress now I chase,” he said.“The first foe in the field,” I said, and let him draw me closer.“And with a stronger faith embrace,” he said.“A sword, a horse, a shield.” And the last word was whispered against his chest, still looking up into those eyes, searching his face.“Yet this inconstancy is such, As thou too shalt adore,” he whispered against my hair.I finished the poem with my face pressed against his chest, listening to the beat of his heart, that truly beat with my blood. “I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

54. “Auggie said you were too sentimental for your own good sometimes."Out loud he said, "Perhaps, but you have taught me that sentiment is not always a bad thing."I stared up at that impossibly beautiful face, and felt love swell up inside me like a physical force. It filled my body, swelling upward until it made my chest ache, my throat tighten, and my eyes burn. It sounded so stupid. But I loved him. Loved all of him, but loved him more because loving me had made him better. That he would say that I had taught him about being sentimental made me want to cry. Richard reminded me at every turn that I was bloodthirsty and cold. If that were true, then I couldn't have taught Jean-Claude about sentimentality. You can't learn, if you don't have it to teach.He kissed me. He kissed me softly, with one hand lost in the hair to the side of my face. He drew back and whispered, "I never thought to see that look upon your face, not for me.""I love you," I said, and touched his hand where it lay against my face.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

55. “Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier."- Jean-Claude” - Laurell K. Hamilton

56. “In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

57. “There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

58. “Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

59. “Je nelegální zahrávat si s mrtvými těly bez svolení rodiny.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

60. “Jak chceš, má malá oživovatelko. Ať jsme milenci nebo ne, nic to nemění na tom, čím pro mne jsi. Jsi moje lidská služebnice.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

61. “Jsem ožoživovatelka. Jsem Popravčí. Ale teď vím, že jsem také něco jiného. To, čeho se babička Flores nejvíc bála. Jsem nekromantka. Mrtví jsou moje silná stránka.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

62. “Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.” - Laurell K. Hamilton