Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

203. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

205. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

210. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

213. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

219. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

228. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

231. “Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

233. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

239. “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

240. “If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you’re debating between those two choices proves that you’re going to need the weapons more.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

241. “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

242. “The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

243. “A vampire victim. I’d never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn’t stop at just one.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

244. “He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

246. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton