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“I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“People view us and our vampires as abominations," Ghastek said. "They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity. Four thousand years of technology, with magic shrinking to a mere trickle before the Shift, yet the world was just as evil then as it is now. It's not vampires or werewolves who committed the worst atrocities, but average people. They are the serial killers, the child rapists, the inquisitors, the witch hunters, the perpetrators of monstrous deeds. The shackles on my wall are the symbol of humanity's capacity for cruelty. I keep them to remind myself that I must fear those who fear me.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed”
― Laurell. K. Hamilton

“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

“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.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“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.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“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.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

“I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones

“When in doubt, shut the fuck up.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade

“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Flirt

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But... 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. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Lunatic Cafe

“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“I am cursed with a terminal case of curiosity," he said. "I am jealous, selfish, acquisitive, territorial and possessive. I have a terrible temper, and I know I can be a cruel son of a bitch." He cocked his head. "I used to eat people, you know.”
― Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

“I’m busy, you’re busy, everybody’s busy. I’ve got a lot I want to say to you, though.” “All right,” Pia told her. “Hit me with it.” “First, I’m so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we’re going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let’s do lunch, okay?”
― Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

“So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the straps of my backpack and brought in front of him. "Removing temptation."
I gave him a look that communicated he should wither and die.”
― Lani Woodland, Intrinsical

“Something horrible had happened here, and had left it's residue behind. It seemed to rise from the bottom of the tiled pool and leak from the ceiling, clinging to the walls and binding itself like some parasite into any host it could ensnare. I imagined it's cold fingers rooting inside me, spreading throughout, and leaving traces of itself embedded in my soul.”
― Lani Woodland, Intrinsical

“The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.
"What are you doing?" Ghastek asked.
"My hole puncher broke."
"You have no respect for the undead.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns