Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “There will always be victims, Anita. Predators and prey, it is the way of the world.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

252. “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

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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

258. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

262. “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

263. “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

264. “Important safety tip – never look a vampire in the eye.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

265. “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

266. “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

267. “Knock your bad self out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

270. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

273. “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

274. “Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

276. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

278. “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

279. “Anyone who doesn’t believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

280. “Never interrupt when you’re winning.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— 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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

285. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

288. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

290. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

295. “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

296. “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

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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