Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

2. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

3. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. – Abraham Maslow.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

4. “Be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

5. “Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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6. “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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

7. “Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn’t.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

8. “We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

9. “Hesitation will get you killed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

10. “Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

11. “People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

12. “I’m not a morning person.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

13. “Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

14. “I loved him, but love isn’t enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they’re all lies. Love does not conquer all.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

15. “Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

16. “Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

17. “A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

18. “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

19. “They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it’s direct opposite does not also exist.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

20. “That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

21. “Never trust people who smile constantly. They’re either selling something or not very bright.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

22. “Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

23. “Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

24. “People go away and they don’t come back.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

25. “Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?”

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26. “SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

27. “What do you do when you know you are breaking someone’s heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

28. “Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

29. “Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

30. “Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

31. “Like most creative people I don’t fit well into boxes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

32. “And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

33. “I think like a detective.”

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34. “Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

35. “Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You’ve taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

36. “The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

37. “If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

38. “I’m not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I’m afraid of.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

39. “It feels like we’re in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.”

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40. “If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

41. “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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

42. “We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn’t. You love someone or you don’t. You can’t change it. You can’t undo it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

43. “Because everything worth having hurts.”

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44. “Murphy’s law is the only true dependable in my life most of the time.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

45. “I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

46. “When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

47. “Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

48. “Hatred makes us all ugly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

49. “Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

50. “When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton