Laurell K. Hamilton

“There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.”

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the...”

“I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you wo...”

“I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”

“I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.”

“I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet...”

“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of thing...”

“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

“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”

“-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 f...”

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

“when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope”

“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.”

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't...”

“The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.”

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

“I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.”

“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 th...”

“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?”

“I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.”