{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","fiction","supernatural","urban-fantasy","vampire"],"id":52102,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","blood","penguins"],"id":53965,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","bad-ass","funny"],"id":78310,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","bad-ass","funny"],"id":87839,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.''What kind of dogs?' I asked.He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.''Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.''Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.'I stared at him, and the look on my face seemed to amuse him. He laughed. 'I'm glad you're here, Anita, because I don't know a single other person who I'd have admitted this to.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","edward","funny","ted-forrester"],"id":110067,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","bad-ass","funny"],"id":141892,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing?","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","fiction","supernatural","vampire"],"id":146270,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","focus","pax-templi"],"id":159682,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}