Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

310. “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

311. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

313. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

315. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

317. “He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

318. “Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. – Anita Blake.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

329. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

331. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

333. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

337. “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

338. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

345. “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

346. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton