“Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“You can never have too much coffee”, I said He turned and smiled at me. “You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD’ed on your level of caffeine.”
Source: Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.”
“I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”
“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other people.”
Source: Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“They be crazier than we are.”
“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.”
Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“You cannot 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 things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”
“That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.”
“If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.”
Source: Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.”
“If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.”
Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet”
“If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.”
“But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.”
“You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.”
“If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“Never interrupt when you're winning.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter”
Source: Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter”
Source: The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.”
“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.”
Source: Micah: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“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.”
