“Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.”
“Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.”
Source: Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.”
Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.”
Source: Out of this World
“I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”
“Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.”
“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”
“What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.”
“Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Because all bad little vampires see me in the end”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.”
“My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.”
Source: Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”
Source: Cerulean Sins
“I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.”
“Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“If they cheat, can I shoot them?”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both”
“Because everything worth having hurts.”
“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it”
“You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.”
Source: Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
“There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.”
Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.”
Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I give good advice. I do not always take it.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Compromise is an imperfect act.”
