Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

107. “Silence is not a lie. A sin of omission, but not a lie.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

108. “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

109. “True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That’s illusion and lies to me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

115. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

117. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

119. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

133. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

141. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

143. “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

144. “You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.”

— 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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

148. “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

149. “I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

150. “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