#anita

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #executioner #fiction #hunter #jean-claude

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#laurell-k-hamilton #funny

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#funny #miss-manners #polyamory #sex #funny

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#death #speak-not-ill-of-the-dead #death

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #life

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#leaving #lesson #life #the-pilot-s-wife #life

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bullet #life

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#emotion #grief #life #pain #physical

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness. ↗

— J. William T. Youngs

#humanitarian #politics #women-s-rights #life

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#laurell-k-hamilton #vampire #love