Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I give good advice. I do not always take it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

257. “My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it’s not paranoia; it’s just the truth.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

258. “I was shaking all over, and it wasn’t from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

260. “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

261. “He didn’t look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

262. “All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

263. “I’m very judgmental person. It’s one of my faults.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

264. “I’ve seen what a whip can do,’ Jason said suddenly. ‘Don’t hurt them.’ I stared at him. ‘You don’t strike me as the self-sacrificing kind.’ He shrugged. ‘We all have our moments.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

266. “It doesn’t matter how much the rest of us love you; if you hate yourself, the self-loathing destroys everything.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

267. “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

268. “You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

269. “I’d made sure I knew his name. You shouldn’t ask people to die for you if you don’t at least know their name.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

270. “A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

271. “You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes – take your choice.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

272. “Chastity works better if you don’t keep testing it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

273. “Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

274. “I’m a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante’s inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of...”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

275. “Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I’d have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

276. “Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine’s Day.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

277. “If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

278. “No. But then the American Government – whatever branch – has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

279. “For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

280. “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

281. “You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

282. “I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I’d seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

283. “What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

284. “Once upon a time wasn’t as long ago as it used to be.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

286. “I didn’t look back, and I didn’t try to kiss him good-bye. I think if I’d tried to touch him, he ’d have hurt me. I don’t mean struck me, but there are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

287. “Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

288. “I thought about that as he held me in the curve of his body. I thought about him enjoying the killing. I didn’t like the thought much, but if he was a sociopathic killer, then he was my sociopathic killer.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

289. “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

290. “She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

291. “My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn’t easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

292. “Watching St John rock his wife’s body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could see the door, the hallway, and the stairs as far as the landing. St John started singing in a strange, broken voice. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he was singing. It was ‘You are so Beautiful.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

293. “He can look harmless if he wants to. He is the consummate actor, but unless he works at it, his eyes give him away. If the eyes are the mirror to the soul, then Edward’s in trouble because no one is home. He.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

294. “Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it’s a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can’t answer the question for myself, I wouldn’t dream of trying to answer it for others.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

295. “She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. Unless we’re very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

296. “The ratman froze, staring at me. “Why are you laughing?” His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You’ve got to admit that’s funny.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

297. “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

298. “Personally I didn’t believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

299. “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

300. “Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I’ve seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton