{"author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton","total_quotes":139,"quotes":[{"text":"My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["inspirational","life","meredith-gentry","nice"],"id":7862,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","blood","hot","jean-claude","kiss","laurell-k-hamilton","lust","romance","vampire"],"id":8326,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["fear"],"id":9200,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Sometimes 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 Blake.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita","vampires"],"id":9381,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["hope","lies","lust"],"id":19203,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Sometimes 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.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita","vampires"],"id":21322,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"I 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.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["confidence"],"id":21984,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["men"],"id":24597,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","maturity","skin-trade"],"id":39468,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Lastly, 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.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["morality","pc"],"id":40427,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":139,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}