Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve."

After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.

Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? If as long as you don't have sex with a lot of people, that's easy. […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

I hate to waste a really good threat.

Samuel smiled at me. "Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?" I nodded, and frowned. "They're important to everybody." He laughed. "Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions."

Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.

Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.

Wikipedia: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series

Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.