01c. 1963 ADVery few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADIf you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
06c. 1963 ADI think we can do it.""But you don't know for sure," he said."No.""Geez, Anita.""Don't get rattled on me. We can do this.""But you aren't sure.""I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane.""Was that supposed to be comforting?" he asked."Yeah.""It wasn't," he said."Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant.""I'm not good at math.""Me either.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
08c. 1963 ADI know, I know. I rescued him and he’s bonded to me like a baby duck.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADWhy does anger makes 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADLastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADEdward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
14c. 1963 AD...on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
15c. 1963 ADSometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
16c. 1963 ADI 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.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
17c. 1963 ADThe 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 BlakeLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
18c. 1963 ADHe squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me.I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always kissed him hello. Of course, I was still covered in blood and other bodily fluids, and none of them were his, but he might not understand that that was why I hadn't wanted to get too close. Some of my confusion must have shown on my face, because his smile widened. He turned me around by the shoulders, gave me a little push towards the bathroom, and slapped me on the ass. "Get cleaned up, I'll take care of things here.""I can't believe that you just did that," I said."Did what?" he said, and he was grinning at me.I could probably count on one hand the number of times Micah had grinned at me. His eyes were sparkling with laughter as if it were all he could do not to let it out. I was happy to see him having a good time, really I was. But I wasn't sure what was funny, and I didn't have the courage to ask. It was probably something that would be at my expense, or something I'd just done that he found cute. I was not cute. Confused, fucked-up, bruised, but not cute. Nathaniel and Damian knew better, but as I passed Gregory, I had to say, "If you touch my ass, I will rip you a new one." I said it as I moved past him, not even pausing."You're no fun," he growled.I looked back just before I turned out of sight of him. "Oh, I'm a lot of fun, just not around you."He snarled at me. "Bitch.""Woof, woof," I said, and finally made it into the bathroom.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
19c. 1963 ADSometimes 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 BlakeLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
20c. 1963 ADVampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
21c. 1963 ADThe 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.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
22c. 1963 ADWhat do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
23c. 1963 ADThe sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
24c. 1963 ADI worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
