Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Besides I’m a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

202. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “Since we’re made in God’s image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an “atta boy,” an out-loud, in-your-head “Thank you, great job on that sunset and that platypus was a brilliant fun idea.” Maybe that’s why we’re supposed to pray the way we do, because without it God would be lonely.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

214. “He whispered, “More than life, more than honor, I love thee.” What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. “More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee,” I said. “More than any power in faerie, I love thee.” The.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

215. “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

216. “Money doesn’t spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

217. “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

218. “One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

219. “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

220. “You’d think a sociopath assassin wouldn’t have a fan following but he does.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

221. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

226. “His parting shot to me had been, “I don’t want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am.” What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

227. “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

228. “I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

229. “Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you’re afraid to say out loud.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

230. “One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

231. “I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I’d told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that’d be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

232. “I wasn’t crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

233. “There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

234. “I’d been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

235. “I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

236. “If you think love makes you happy, you’ve either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

237. “Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

238. “Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

239. “Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

240. “There’s Only so much emotional super glue in a person’s soul, that everything just stays broken.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

241. “Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

242. “I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

243. “One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let’s hear it for the monsters.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

244. “There are only two things you can do when you’re dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

245. “He said, softly, “Sorry, Jimmy.” He still didn’t cry. I would have cried. But then, women have more chemicals in their tear ducts. It makes us tear up easier than men. Honest.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

246. “The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn’t anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? – Anita Blake.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

247. “Revenge was always the easy part; the hard part was living with it afterward.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

248. “Silk didn’t care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I’d earned my right to be paranoid.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

249. “Let’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; they’re keeping you safe from me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

250. “I thought we were the good guys,” he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren’t so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it’s evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you’re on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton