Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Knock your bad self out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

262. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

267. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

272. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

278. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

280. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

284. “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

285. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

288. “Don’t make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what’s best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don’t like their choices.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

290. “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

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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