Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I thought we were the good guys,” he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren’t so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it’s evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you’re on.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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361. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

363. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

366. “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

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

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

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369. “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

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

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

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372. “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

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

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374. “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.”

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375. “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

376. “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

377. “Nill illigitamus carborundum.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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381. “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?”

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

384. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

386. “I hate to shop. I consider it one of life’s necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

387. “Larry’s zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

388. “I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to.” “Does everyone pretty much think I’m just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?” “It’s all you let people see,” he said, “until now.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

389. “There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

390. “I don’t have a master. I’m not sure if I have an equal.”

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391. “It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

392. “I’d worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

393. “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

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

396. “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

397. “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

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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

400. “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