Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

52. “The only good enemy is a dead enemy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

53. “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

54. “Friends don’t count the cost of favors.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

55. “Sometimes you can’t save people, and sometimes they don’t want to be saved.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

56. “There’s no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else’s morality.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

57. “I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

58. “When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

59. “Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

60. “Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man’s heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

61. “A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don’t have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

62. “Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

63. “Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else’s.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

64. “Death didn’t bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

65. “Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what’s asked, don’t elaborate, and don’t volunteer information.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

66. “Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

67. “A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

68. “If you can’t impress yourself, then no one else really matters.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

69. “A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone’s eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

70. “Not dating is a choice, not a failure.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

71. “Zerbrowski said, “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

72. “Important safety tip – never look a vampire in the eye.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

73. “One thing I’ve learned about vampires – they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that’ll eat your eyeballs if you’re not paying attention.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

74. “I never said I was consistent.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

75. “Sometimes good and evil aren’t so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it’s evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you’re on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

76. “It’s not about winning, Haven. I’m not a prize to be won. I’m not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I’m the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

77. “When I was younger, I’d wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child’s wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn’t promise, not and mean it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

78. “No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

79. “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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

80. “When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

81. “Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

82. “Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

83. “Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

84. “One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

85. “Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won’t do the job without it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

86. “Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don’t have can be – Sholto.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

87. “If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

88. “Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they’ll kill you. Either way, no more worries.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

89. “Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

90. “It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

91. “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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

92. “Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don’t, someone else will.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

93. “Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I’d rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I’d rather have a no, then nothing. I’d forgotten that about myself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

94. “Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

95. “Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

96. “It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

97. “I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

98. “Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

99. “Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

100. “I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton