Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

208. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

218. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

220. “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

221. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

223. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

233. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

235. “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

236. “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

237. “Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

238. “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

239. “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

240. “He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I’d understood that he’d understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod – with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

241. “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

242. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

245. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

247. “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

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton