Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you’re afraid to say out loud.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

302. “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

303. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

309. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

311. “I just don’t believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don’t see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

312. “My least favorite thing was a man who had severe white-man’s ass, where the jeans just bagged over the butt. I wanted something to hold on to, something to sink my teeth into. When I said I liked meat on my men I didn’t just mean one thing.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

313. “This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude’s favorite things.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

314. “He wanted you dead, now he doesn’t, I don’t know why. Chimera’s crazy, he doesn’t need a reason to change his mind.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

315. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

317. “Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

320. “No, really, Ronnie, it’s good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

321. “They be crazier than we are.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

322. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

324. “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

325. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

327. “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

328. “Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he’d spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

330. “If I wasn’t dead already, I’d said I was having a heart attack.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

333. “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

334. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

336. “By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

338. “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

339. “I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn’t the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

341. “I’ve lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won’t get a book written. You’ve got to write.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

342. “You saved me because you could not bear the thought of leaving me behind.” He touched my face, very gently. “Not from a sense of right and wrong, but because you are just that tenderhearted.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

344. “I thought we were the good guys,” he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren’t so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it’s evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you’re on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

345. “I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

347. “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

348. “An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton