Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

102. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

104. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

106. “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

107. “If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

109. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

112. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

121. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

123. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

125. “Now that I’m being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I’m unabashedly genre. It’s what I like to read, what I like to write.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

126. “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

127. “Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

128. “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

129. “My mug had a reindeer in a bathrobe and slippers with Christmas lights laced in its antlers, toasting the merry season with champagne and saying, “Bingle Jells.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

130. “Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he’s not starting over on the paperwork.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

131. “But if anything will turn me off, it’s a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

132. “I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

133. “There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

135. “It’s better to be loved than feared, but if you can’t be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

136. “Sometimes love isn’t about being smart. Sometimes it’s about being stupid together.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

143. “If you’re open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

144. “If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It’s a rule.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

145. “Edward’s grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it’ll give him something to focus on so he doesn’t have to feel the pain.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

146. “Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

148. “Anyone who tells you size doesn’t matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

149. “I didn’t want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn’t know how to do that.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

150. “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