Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Revenge was always the easy part; the hard part was living with it afterward.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

256. “Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

257. “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

258. “Knock your bad self out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

259. “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

260. “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

261. “And perhaps, because I liked you.” His laughter was bitter, like broken glass.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

262. “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

263. “A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

264. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

266. “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

267. “Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you’re right, and everyone else is evil.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

268. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

272. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

274. “I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl’s got to have a goal.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

275. “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

276. “He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

277. “Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. – Anita Blake.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

282. “Heroes don’t get anything but dead.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

283. “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

284. “Home wasn’t a place, or a building, or a tropical night full of flowers and rain. Love made home not out of boards and walls and furniture, but of hands to hold, and smiles to share, and the warmth of that body cuddled around you in the dark. I swam in the darkness of the ocean on a raft of hands, and bodies, and giving a damn what happened to them all.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

285. “They had kilts on instead of pants, but you just didn’t see six feet-plus of immortal warrior panicking about anything often, but panicking in a kitchen with pots in their hands and the oven open while they peered inside in a puzzled manner was a very special and endearing type of panic.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

287. “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

288. “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

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

293. “Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don’t seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you’re not a sexual object, you’re a threat.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

294. “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

295. “Some people just don’t seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain’t true, folks.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

297. “I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

298. “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

299. “Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton