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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

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

Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.

Hope is a lying bitch.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

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.

Is your hair as soft as all those curls look?"
"No.

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

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.

You are an irritating son of a bitch."
"Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?

You're the scarest motherfucker in the room.

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

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

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I've found that it's so often the other way around.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years, I said.

You are an abomination before God.
Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

What's your name?"
Donald."
Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

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

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

A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman.

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

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

Ma petite.' That was all, just my nickname, but it seemed to hold years of I love yous. The

I was learning that happily-ever-after was the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.

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.

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

Who me?
anita blake series
by: Laurell K Hamilton

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

What are you afraid of?' I asked.
'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.

Frustration in a fight can lead to four things: You give up, you fight harder, you fight worse, or you cheat.

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy?

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did

Strike that, no killing today, though depending on the level of stupid aimed at us, I was willing to look at a little mayhem.

I felt like shit, but it was happy shit.

I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing.

To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.

Just because it's childish and unfair doesn't mean it isn't the way I felt. Stupid, but true.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

It does hurt my ego that you sit there all itty-bitty and cute as hell, and you must be more dangerous than I will ever be.

Pretend I asked, now answer the question...

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

You don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

At least I'm not dead.
That can be remedied.
Jean-Claude & Richard

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane. - Anita

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.

He balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said.

Puta, really, that's the best insult you got? I've been called the Whore of Babylon on national TV; puta just doesn't quite cut it.

Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.

Some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart ... it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

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

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

What is it about her that is so goddamned special?

I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have.

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.

Yeah, I'm just a medical marvel, and I'm taking my marvelous ass home.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

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

Every religion has demons ... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

I never forgave anyone for anything. A character flaw to be sure, but hell, everyone's got to have at least one.

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.

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

Never interrupt when you're winning.

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

Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

Never argue when you're winning.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.