Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes - Page 4

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

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.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.