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Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1) QUOTES

Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1) QUOTES

1 " It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

2 " You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

3 " Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

4 " Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

5 " Vampires are people too! "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

6 " 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. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

8 " An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

9 " There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a
little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more
appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

10 " I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

11 " Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

12 " Never criticize, unless you can do a better job. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

13 " He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

14 " Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

15 " Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

16 " Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

17 " Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

18 " I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

19 " Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)

20 " I give good advice. I do not always take it. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)