Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

302. “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

303. “A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

304. “You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

325. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

327. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

330. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

332. “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

333. “I wasn’t like most girls.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

334. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

342. “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

343. “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

344. “If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn’t feel so compelled to write myself.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

345. “Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

346. “Since you won’t give me your names I’ll call you Thing One and Thing Two.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

347. “Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

348. “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

349. “Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton