Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

160. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

162. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

164. “Vampires are people too!”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

165. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

171. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

175. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

178. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

180. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

186. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

192. “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

193. “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

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. “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

196. “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

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

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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. “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