Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

159. “Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it’s all that makes us human.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

166. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

173. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

180. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

182. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

184. “Vampires are people too!”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

189. “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

190. “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

191. “All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn’t into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

192. “Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

193. “All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

194. “I could have just said I’m good at my job, but I didn’t. Didn’t want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn’t. “I’ve got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it’s just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don’t spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

195. “That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn’t been innocent for years.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

196. “I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

197. “Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

199. “If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I’d have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn’t that brave.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

200. “Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I’m not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton