Laurell K. Hamilton

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 holding my breath.

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

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.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

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

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.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

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.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

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 job yourself.

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'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?