“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
Laurell K. Hamilton
Born place: in Heber Springs, Arkansas, The United States
Born date February 19, 2018
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“He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.”
― quote from Daphnis and Chloe
“No, sorry, bro. R.I.P didn’t know anything more about her. Even called the branches myself but kept getting different folk. Like finding a needle in a haystack, eh? Not sure what I’d have said anyway – ‘hi, which one of you bitches wants to listen to me die?’ Lolz. I replied with a ‘lolz’ of my own but nothing about this amused me.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Good Samaritan
“These are the kinds of thoughts that made it necessary to separate me from the other kids at school.”
― George Carlin, quote from Napalm & Silly Putty
“For the briefest of seconds, it was like he looked back into the stands, like maybe he spotted me, shaking my rattle, giving him all the encouragement I could. I could have sworn I saw a corner of his mouth curl up. Then he did the whole Velcro batting glove thing and stepped up to the plate.
The pitch came.
He swung.
Crack!
He hit it! He hit it! I jumped up and started shouting.
I had a second to see the stunned look on his face, like maybe he’d never hit the ball before, but that couldn’t be…
And then I realized what it was. As he started running, he turned his head, his gaze following the ball…
The ball that went out of the ballpark!
Right over the Backyard Mania billboard!
Home run!
My boyfriend had hit a home run!”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from The Boyfriend League
“The book describes the death experience in terms of the different elements of the body, going deeper and deeper. Physically you feel heavy when the earth element dissolves into water; and when water dissolves into fire you find that the circulation begins to cease functioning. When fire dissolves into air, any feeling of warmth or growth begins to dissolve; and when air dissolves into space you lose the last feeling of contact with the physical world. Finally, when space or consciousness dissolves into the central nāḍī, there is a sense of internal luminosity, an inner glow, when everything has become completely introverted.”
― Padmasambhava, quote from Tibetan Book of the Dead
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