"Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed. -- Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blue Moon)

"There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. - Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Incubus Dreams)"
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"Friends don't count the cost of favors."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Danse Macabre)

""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?" Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Danse Macabre)

"If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

""Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway." - Jason Schuyler"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Cerulean Sins)

"People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2))

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
- Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Danse Macabre)

"I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"...one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Obsidian Butterfly)

"I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
Yeah, those are the words."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"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.

Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

""A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.""
— Laurell K. Hamilton (A Stroke of Midnight (Meredith Gentry, #4))

""What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton

""Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork"."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Incubus Dreams)

"life s a bitch and then you die"
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

"What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Incubus Dreams)

"When in doubt, Ignore and be horribly unimpressed"
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it. "
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Harlequin)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2))

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2))

""I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet.
"Did you take it?"
"Would I be calling you if I had?"
"Maybe," I said. He laughed.
"True, but I'm not going to take it."
"Why not?"
"Friendship."
"Try again," I said.
"I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you."
"Comforting...""
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Killing Dance)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #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 (Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5))

"Never argue when you're winning."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Cerulean Sins)

"Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #7))

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3))

"The rich and powerful always seem to perfer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"(...) 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.
-Jean-Claude"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

"Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
"I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny." "
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

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

"I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared. "
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me. "
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.
- Micah"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Incubus Dreams)

"Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with demons or other demi-beings. Other exceptions to the rule are vampires, zombies, ghouls, lycanthropes, witches...Oh, hell, ignoring only works for ghosts."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2))

"Asher was a vampire. How much more dangerous could he be with a gun? But I couldn't do it. "Let me test my understanding. Is Asher going to ride in the car with us to the meeting?"
"I must to give you directions," Asher said.
"Then lean against the Jeep." He frowned at me in an amused, condescending sort of way.
"Excuse me?"
"I don't care if you're the second coming of the Antichrist, you can't sit behind me in my own car until I know you're not carrying a weapon." Asher smiled briliantly at both of us, flashing fang.
"...I could rip you into pieces with my bare hands, and you're worried I have a gun?" He chuckled, a low, skin-prickling sound. "That is so very cute.""
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #7))

""You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm unconfortable enough in the lingerie".
"Then by all means take it off".
-Jason and Anita"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita"
— Laurell K. Hamilton

"...I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

""Believe this, Bitch..." - Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3))