"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)

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

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

"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

"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

""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)

""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))

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

"When in doubt, Ignore and be horribly unimpressed"
— 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))

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should. - Acheron Parthenopaeus"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
- Acheron"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food."

Ash"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance With The Devil)

"" We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record." - Acheron"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

"'Any game plan?' Xypher asked Sin.
'Don't die.'
'I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me.'
Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. 'What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead.'
He laughed. 'You know, for once, it's good to be me.'"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Devil May Cry)

"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Unleash the Night)

"Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer.
--Dante Pontis "
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kiss of the Night)

"Bitch please...you haven't seen mean yet."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

"Even if i were lying on the sun itself, i would be freezing there without you."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance With The Devil)

"Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? [Wren]"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Unleash the Night)