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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

11. “I’m not a morning person.”

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

13. “Hesitation will get you killed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

14. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

21. “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

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

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

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24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

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

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

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

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

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31. “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

32. “I think like a detective.”

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

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

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

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38. “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

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

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

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41. “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

42. “Because everything worth having hurts.”

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

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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47. “Hatred makes us all ugly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

49. “Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

50. “Love, whether it’s friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton