"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)

""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)

""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

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

"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. - Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"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 looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.""
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

""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)

""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 (Cerulean Sins)

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

"I never met coffee that wasn't wonderful.
It was just a matter of how wonderful it was."
— Anita Blake (Laurell K. Hamilton)

"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, now sexual innuendo until after I'm clean."
"Of course, MA PETITE. It was crude of me tonight. My apologies."
I started at him. He was being far toon 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 smiiled 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 (The Killing Dance)

"I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.
-Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Cerulean Sins)

"I talk to myself every once in awhile. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes, I even take it"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

-Bella Morte"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Skin Trade)

"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

"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))

""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)

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

"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))

""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)

"'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 (Skin Trade)

"Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Skin Trade)

"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 (Incubus Dreams)

"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. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

"I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Cerulean Sins)

""...either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true." "
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Obsidian Butterfly)

"I hoped he was right, but 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))

"They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Incubus Dreams)

"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)

"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)

"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)

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

"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

""Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs."

"
— 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)

"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)

"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)

"He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2))

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

"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))

"That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3))

"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))

"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))

"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)

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