Laurell K. Hamilton

“Why 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.”

“What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.”

“I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.”

“You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?”

“I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.”

“It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”

“Because everything worth having hurts.”

“I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.”

“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.”

“One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”