Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes - Page 15

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?

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.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

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.

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.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

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.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

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.

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. "I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.