Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.
I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.
Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.
When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake
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.
Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.
Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.
Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?
Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.
If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.
He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development