939 Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

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.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

[...] prejudice doesn’t go away just because a law changes.