Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

102. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

107. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

109. “There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

111. “I’m learning that you have to make time for what’s important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

112. “I hate women who complain about being fat when they’re like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn’t a woman. It’s a boy with breasts.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

113. “How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

114. “I’d killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

115. “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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

116. “Sometimes it’s not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. 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.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

117. “Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

118. “I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you’re at their mercy; it’s a rule.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

119. “In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

120. “What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

121. “Just what I needed – a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

122. “Never look back; something is always gaining on you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

123. “Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

124. “People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

125. “Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it’s easier to fight.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

126. “Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

127. “Morals aren’t just for when it’s easy, Anita. They aren’t morals if you throw them aside every time it’s convenient.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

128. “There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It’ll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn’t have harmed. Sometimes it’s not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it’s going to be.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

129. “Never throw stones if you think they’re going to come back and hit you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

130. “Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

131. “Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

132. “Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.? – Chang Bibi to Anita.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

133. “I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

134. “Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won’t tell, I won’t.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

135. “He said,’Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

136. “Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I’ve found that it’s so often the other way around.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

137. “I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn’t sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn’t love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

138. “Destroy your personal demons, use their corpses as fuel to light your way.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

139. “I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

140. “When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he’s there or not.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

141. “Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

142. “I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you – that you would save yourself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

143. “The best lies are always at least partially true.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

144. “He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

145. “The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

146. “Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

147. “You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

148. “Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It’s overrated.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

149. “You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

150. “It’s not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it’s just where you draw the line.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton