Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

262. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

267. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

272. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

274. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

278. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

280. “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

281. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

283. “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

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

287. “You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

289. “Here’s the secret to finishing that first book. Don’t rewrite as you go.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

292. “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

293. “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

294. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

296. “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

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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