Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

308. “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

309. “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

310. “I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

311. “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

312. “I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I’d miss would be the best part.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

313. “That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

314. “I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to.” “Does everyone pretty much think I’m just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?” “It’s all you let people see,” he said, “until now.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

316. “If they cheat, can I shoot them?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

317. “Life is like dancing, sometimes one of you leads, sometimes the other, and if you do it right it’s beautiful, even when it’s hard.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

318. “Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don’t understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

319. “Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it’s a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can’t answer the question for myself, I wouldn’t dream of trying to answer it for others.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

320. “The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

321. “She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. Unless we’re very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

322. “In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

323. “My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

324. “It was more fun to hunt monsters before we had someone to go home to,’ I said. The.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

325. “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

326. “Personally I didn’t believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

327. “Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

328. “Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

329. “I’m not terribly fond of soapboxes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

330. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

332. “I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

333. “I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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334. “Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

335. “Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I’ve seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

336. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

337. “You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

338. “We take turns being smart for each other; I think it’s part of the job description of being a couple.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

341. “I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

343. “To know another’s heart, you must first know your own.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

344. “My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

345. “Together we are more than we are apart, Anita, that is what love is.’ I.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

346. “The ratman froze, staring at me. “Why are you laughing?” His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You’ve got to admit that’s funny.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

347. “Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

348. “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

349. “Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

350. “Sometimes it’s not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton