Laurell K. Hamilton

Quotes

1. I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid...

2. 

   Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child.

   Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband?

   Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.

   p. 198

3. 

   He wanted to feed the hunger of his skin. The hunger of his body not so much for orgasm but for that need to be held close and tight, that need we all have to press our nakedness against someone else's.

   p. 81

4. 

   Samuel smiled at me. "Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?"

   I nodded, and frowned. "They're important to everybody."

   He laughed. "Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions."

   p. 151

5. 

   There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

   p. 383

6. 

   Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

   p. 518

7. 

   Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.

8. 

   [Talking to friend Veronica, Anita Blake worries she may be pregnant.]

   Ronnie: I could ask, who's the father, but that's just creepy. If you are, then it's this little tiny, microscopic lump of cells. It's not a baby. It's not a person, not yet.

   Anita: We'll have to disagree on that one.

   Ronnie: You're pro-choice.

   Anita: Yep, I am, but I also believe that abortion is taking a life. I agree women have the right to choose, but I also think that it's still taking a life.

   Ronnie: That's like saying you're pro-choice and pro-life. You can't be both.

   Anita: I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

   p. 4

9. 

   I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't met a trophy wife, 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. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

   p. 304

10. 

    I could almost smell her fear... Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicker, whatever. It was a rule for playing with the big boys.

11. 

    We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

12. 

    My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.