Top 500 Quotes & Sayings by Laurell K. Hamilton - Page 8

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

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

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.

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.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

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.

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

I never said I was consistent.

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

You can never have too much coffee”, I said He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

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

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

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

People go away and they don't come back.

I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

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.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

I`m not a morning person.

He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.