Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 7 of 10

301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

309. “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

310. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

311. “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

312. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

319. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

321. “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

322. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

324. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

328. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

332. “They be crazier than we are.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

333. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

335. “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

336. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

338. “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

339. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

346. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

348. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

350. “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