Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

302. “Home wasn’t a place, or a building, or a tropical night full of flowers and rain. Love made home not out of boards and walls and furniture, but of hands to hold, and smiles to share, and the warmth of that body cuddled around you in the dark. I swam in the darkness of the ocean on a raft of hands, and bodies, and giving a damn what happened to them all.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

303. “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

304. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

305. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

308. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

310. “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

311. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

313. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

316. “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

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

320. “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

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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

324. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

327. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

329. “Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

331. “If you only believe when it’s easy, you don’t really believe.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

335. “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

336. “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

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. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

342. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

347. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

349. “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

350. “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