What do you want?’' I want to play,’ he said. I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’' Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

— Laurell K. Hamilton

When you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Who me?"Anita Blake series by: Laurel K Hamilton

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Why does anger make people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature's cruelties, or maybe it's to keep us from killing each other more often.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

You can not 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.

— Laurell K. Hamilton