Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.

I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

It's always bad news when you kill your date

I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?" -Sookie Stackhouse

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.