Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Graves are for the living, not the dead.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

402. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

404. “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

405. “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

406. “True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

409. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

414. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

416. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

418. “I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I’m perched on that edge where I’m getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

419. “Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

420. “A hundred years later and someone gazes upon you as if you were heaven itself, but you know in your heart of hearts that it’s not heaven you’re offering them, it’s hell.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

421. “So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

422. “Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

423. “If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward’s in trouble ’cause no one is home.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

424. “The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

425. “Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

426. “They all piled into Kevin’s and Teddy’s cars, and I went for my Jeep. Happy to be rid of them for a while. Happy even if it meant another crime scene. Happy even if I still didn’t know how to tell if Malcolm was alive down there in the dark. Nathaniel watched me through the back window of the car, his lilac gaze on me until the car turned a corner. He’d been lost, and now he thought he’d been found. But if he expected me to be more than friends, he was still lost.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

427. “I didn’t say anything because I didn’t have anything good to say. Just lately I had noticed that I could kill people and not blink. No attack of conscience, no nightmares, nothing. It was like some part of me had turned off. It didn’t bother me that I was able to kill so easily. It did bother me that it didn’t bother me. But it had its uses, like tonight. I think every last furry one of them had believed I’d do it. Sometimes, it was good to be scary.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

428. “I’m more influenced by my own interests than anyone else’s. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can’t entertain anyone else.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

429. “Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

430. “Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

431. “If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

432. “Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

433. “Edward suggested we stick all the pictures on the walls of the dining room. “And put pin holes in your nice clean walls,” I said. “Don’t be barbaric,” Edward said. “We’ll use sticky putty.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

434. “We all build upon our ruins.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

435. “To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

436. “Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

437. “A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

438. “We lose too many people that way, both male and female. Twenty-two combat veterans die every day in the United States alone from suicide, and it isn’t just soldiers who have just come home from their tours of duty. There is no statute of limitations on nightmares and depression. With numbers like that, we need to start talking to one another more.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

439. “Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. “The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

440. “What is it about her that is so goddamned special?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

441. “I sounded like Horton the Elephant. “A person is a person no matter how small.” What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

442. “I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

443. “Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He’d forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

444. “Compromise is an imperfect act.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

445. “I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

446. “I didn’t believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we’d-ever-been, because I was living it.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

447. “We aren’t the good guys, Anita. We’re the necessary guys. -Edward.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

448. “All six of them sat on either side of the long oval conference table, strung out like strong, handsome beads on the string of my love.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

449. “That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

450. “He always seemed to know just what I needed, just when I needed it. If we weren’t in love, then how did he do that? Hell, I’d been in love with people that didn’t even come close to meeting this many of my needs.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton