“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“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”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again.
Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?"
"They're wererats, Ares," I said.
He frowned at me.
"They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“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 they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“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.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“...just because it's childish and unfair doesn't mean it isn't the way I felt. Stupid, but true.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
“Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bullet
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“His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.”
― Kiran Desai, quote from The Inheritance of Loss
“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Parable of the Sower
“Luce had to fight every urge in her body not to run into his arms. He was breathtaking: a knight in shining armor to outshine any fairy-tale knight.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Fallen in Love
“I’m over a thousand years old. I’ve seen it all. You, sweetcheeks, are nothing new.” At what must have been an outraged expression on her face, he laughed again. “Come on. Surely you can’t think you are the only female out there who’s had a rough life, had her heart walked on, been kept in a dungeon for three centuries, blah, blah, pick your trauma, and are now stomping around with all this pent-up anger you spill like acid on everyone who gets to know you.” He narrowed his gaze at her. “How close am I?”
Sin’s mouth worked, but nothing came out. She finally snapped it shut to avoid looking like a fish gasping on the bank of a river.
“That’s what I thought.” He made a shooing gesture with his hand. “No, run along and go be caustic with someone who cares. Oh, wait, no one cares, do they? Because you won’t let them--”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Desire Unchained
“There are a few people who are able to know of their death and use the time wisely. But when you start planning for the end, most people instinctually stop living for tomorrow. Living for the day is beautiful-too many of us don't do it enough-but to live fully, we must live for today and tomorrow. Think about it, if you knew you were going to die in six months, would you start a project you knew that you couldn't finish? Would you go to school to learn to be a doctor? Would you have a child, knowing you would leave it alone too soon? People miss out on so muchif they stop living for tomorrow." - Holiday Brandon”
― C.C. Hunter, quote from Whispers at Moonrise
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