Kiss the Dead Quotes

“Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."
It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Because all bad little vampires see me in the end”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I have to clean up first. I’m still all sweaty and stuff from the crime scene.” I realized he was wearing a white shirt and I might have dried blood on me. It made me draw back and look at the front of him.
“What is wrong, ma petite?”
“I may have dried blood and things on me, and you’re wearing white.”
He drew me back into his arms. “I would rather hold you close than worry about my clothes. The shirt will wash, or we can throw it away. I do not care.”
I pushed back just enough to turn my face up, resting my chin on his chest so that I gazed up the line of his body, and he looked down so that our eyes met down the line of his chest. “I know you love me, but when you don’t care about your clothes, I know it’s true love for you.” I grinned as I said it.
He laughed, abrupt, surprised, and for a moment I got to see what he must have looked like centuries ago before being a vampire had taught him to control his face and show nothing for fear it would be used against him by those more powerful than him.
I smiled up at him, held as close to him as I could with clothes and weapons still on, and loved him. I loved that I could make him laugh like that, loved that he felt safe enough to show me this part of him, loved that even when we were ass-deep in alligators, being with each other made it better. The alligators would be chewing on our asses either way, but with each other it was more fun, and we were more likely to be able to make a matching set of alligator luggage out of our enemies rather than end up as their dinner.
I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse, which made me wonder if Asher truly loved anyone. I pushed the thought away, and enjoyed the man in my arms, and the fact that I had made him laugh.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I thought about it for another minute, and then said, “Okay.”
“Now that’s an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay.” I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I’d kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“There had been a time when I’d believed my power was evil, but God didn’t seem to feel that way, so until He changed His mind, I just had faith that my power came from the right side.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Was I his? Was he mine? Fuck, I didn’t know. How could I not know after more than a year? How could I not know the answer to this? What the fuck was wrong with me? What the fuck was wrong… with me? With… him and me, with us? No, with me. With me. What was wrong with me?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Apologies that do not lead to better actions are empty things.” “Amen to that,” I said.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“It doesn’t matter how much the rest of us love you; if you hate yourself, the self-loathing destroys everything.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Grief isn’t a neat series of stages. You can jump around in the stages, you can get stuck at one point or the other, and you even get to revisit stages you’ve already finished. Grief isn’t a neat, orderly kind of thing. It’s messy, and it sucks.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

-Speaking to the corpse of Desdemona,
and kissing her, Othello dies”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Vanessa is set on children,”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I’d learned to never underestimate the crazy. Crazy didn’t mean dumb; some insane people were incredibly smart. Sometimes I wondered if you had to be a certain level of intelligent just to go crazy in style.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“One of the hardest things to learn about being polyamorous was you could be totally heartbroken about relationship B, but still be happy about relationship C, but having C didn’t make losing B less painful. It meant you had another established relationship to help you heal over the lost one, but your heart still broke. I’d had this idea that if you loved more people you wouldn’t get your heart truly broken unless you lost them all, but like so many theories, reality was different.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I couldn’t decide if it was a new orgasm, or if it was just an extra ending for the first one.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“Stephen wasn’t going to work through his issues in time to save his relationship with Vanessa,”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“anyone who ever said love conquers all was a fucking liar. Love is a good place to start, but it’s a start, not an end.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“You enjoying your rabbit food?” I asked. “That was low, Anita,” he said, and he stirred his salad with his fork, not really eating it. Maybe that was how you lost weight on salads; you just didn’t want to eat them, so you didn’t eat, and voilà, you lost weight.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“slid the plastic booties over my shoes next. I’d gotten where I could do it standing up on one foot, and I didn’t track pieces of my work home with me. I still hadn’t heard the end of the time I had a piece of brain matter stuck to one shoe and didn’t notice until I was walking across the living room carpet. All right, honestly, I didn’t notice at all. Micah noticed, and Nathaniel said he had no idea how to clean brains out of carpeting, so please don’t get it on the carpet.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“I love you,” I said, and this time I meant it. I could see the smile that went with the tone of his voice as he said, “I know, and I love you more.” I smiled. “I love you most.” Nathaniel’s voice came on the phone as if Micah were holding it out to him: “I love you mostest.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“didn’t bother me as I looked at the kneeling figures, and I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I’d kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody. I let them see that in my face, in my eyes, and watched fear leak through the toughness on their faces.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead

“How do you divide yourself between killing people and loving them? The best I had on that one was just to kill the bad guys, and love the good guys, and hope the two lists never crossed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead