Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

281. “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

282. “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

283. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

287. “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

288. “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

289. “Out last chance is a cat’s magic sight. We are doomed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

290. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

292. “I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn’t lie.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

293. “Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It’s like evil magical Tupperware – it stays fresh forever.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

297. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

299. “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

300. “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