Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

312. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

315. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

317. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

323. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

325. “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

326. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

328. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

331. “They be crazier than we are.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

332. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

334. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

336. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

343. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

345. “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

346. “I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don’t date vampires. I kill them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

347. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton