Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

158. “A challenge forever,” I said. “For all eternity,” he whispered. I let him draw me down into a kiss, and part of me was still not sure if I’d done a good thing or a bad thing. But just for tonight, I didn’t care.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

160. “Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

161. “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

162. “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

163. “My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends – I can give them advice, but they don’t have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

164. “I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

165. “You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

166. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

168. “I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

170. “Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn’t win.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

171. “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

172. “Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

173. “That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

174. “I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

176. “Vampires are people too!”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

177. “Edward wonders why I’m so sympathetic to the monsters. The answer is simple. Because I am one.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

178. “This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self. I was fine with the prince fighting at my side, or, hell, I’d rescue him if he needed it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

179. “But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

180. “Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

181. “I’d never met coffee that wasn’t wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

182. “People say I’m a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

183. “Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

184. “Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven’t ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man’s heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

185. “His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

186. “Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

187. “Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

188. “You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

189. “I should not have to flirt with someone while I’m trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

190. “Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

191. “Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

192. “Yes, but it is frightening and romantic for the Queen to say, ‘Where is my Darkness, bring me my Darkness,’ and someone would bleed or die at his hand.” “You.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

193. “I wasn’t afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

194. “If it works out, it’s the best thing in the world. If it doesn’t work out, it’s like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

195. “Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

196. “He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn’t be tested?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

197. “It was basically a legal version of the sheriff standing out in front of the saloon in the Old West and saying, ‘Let’s form a posse and go get these guys.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

198. “A little boy who’s discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it’s screwing Mommy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

199. “Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn’t be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don’t know how to fix it? Wish I knew.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

200. “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. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn’t matter has been seeing too many small knives.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton