Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes - Page 10

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

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.

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

They be crazier than we are.

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

People go away and they don't come back.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.