Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

359. “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

360. “I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you’ll go sooner than later.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

361. “So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

362. “It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

363. “They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

364. “Surely being in love doesn’t cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

365. “There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

366. “No one had said anything, or even lifted an eyebrow at me; sometimes it’s just the inside of your own head that is the problem.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

367. “If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn’t death that we fear. It’s living.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

368. “Nill illigitamus carborundum.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

369. “Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

371. “I’m not terribly fond of soapboxes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

372. “Because all bad little vampires see me in the end.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

373. “Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn’t I choose the lesser good?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

374. “I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

375. “If you’re dressed for my funeral, it’s too casual. If it’s just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

376. “It’s good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

377. “Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

378. “I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

379. “What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

381. “If I’d been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

382. “I was new and didn’t realize that brand new writers are treated like light bulbs; when one burns out, you can always buy more, screw the next one in, and it lights up just as bright. No, I am not being too harsh about how publishing treats new writers. If anything I’m toning it down. Sorry, for all you aspiring authors out there, but truth is truth, it is a hard business. Shine up the armor around your ego, harden your heart, keep your head down, and write.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

383. “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

384. “He looked a little surprised, as if he’d expected an argument. But I was all out of argument tonight. He could have the bed. I’d take the couch. What could be more innocent? Biker Nuns from Hell, but besides that.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

385. “Never argue when you’re winning.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

387. “Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

388. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

390. “I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I’m too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

391. “If what I felt had been an actual wound, I’d have been bleeding to death.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

392. “I didn’t want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

393. “I am an animator. I am the Executioner. But now I know I’m something else. The one thing my Grandmother Flores feared most. I am a necromancer. The dead are my specialty.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

394. “The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower – Peter.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

395. “Graves are for the living, not the dead.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

396. “Different isn’t evil, it’s just different.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

397. “I really wish the “normal” people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn’t give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

398. “I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn’t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children’s fantasy, until I was in my teens.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

399. “He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I’d known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn’t holding my breath.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

400. “Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it’s willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton