Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

352. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

356. “They be crazier than we are.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

357. “I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

363. “Nill illigitamus carborundum.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

367. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

370. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

372. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

374. “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

375. “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

376. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

378. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

380. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

383. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

385. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

388. “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

389. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

394. “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

395. “But Jasmine knew that everyone was evil, down deep when you scrape the skin away. Inside their heads everyone hunted, everyone killed, everyone was a monster.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

396. “Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

397. “I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people’s writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people’s fiction. Just don’t.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

399. “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

400. “I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton