Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— 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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

171. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

177. “If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

178. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

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183. “Vampires are people too!”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

184. “I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

188. “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

189. “What is love? Sometimes it’s just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you’re supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

— 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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

194. “Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane.” – Anita.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

196. “She doesn’t understand what she’s asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

199. “It wasn’t just my beast’s hunger, but Jean-Claude’s blood thirst and Richard’s craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it’s own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

200. “I give good advice. I do not always take it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton