Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

217. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

220. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

222. “Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

223. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

227. “Besides I’m a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

228. “There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

229. “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

230. “Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

231. “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

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 comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

237. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

239. “Knock your bad self out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

240. “I was still left with having to peel the tape off my arm, and the IV itself had to come out, mustn’t forget that. “If you want it fast, I’ll do it,” Edward said. I nodded, and he ripped the tape off my arm along with the IV. “Ow!” He smiled. “Sissy.” “Sociopath.” Doctor.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

241. “Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

242. “I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

243. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

245. “There will always be victims, Anita. Predators and prey, it is the way of the world.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

246. “You’re as tough as you are beautiful, which means a lot of women must hate you on sight, and the men can’t decide whether to try to compete with you or sleep with you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

247. “This one is for all the Edward fans, who by their letters, questions, and sheer interest let me know that they were as interested in knowing more about him as I was.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

248. “How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

249. “Pretend I asked, now answer the question...”

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250. “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