Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

406. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

408. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

414. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

418. “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

419. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

422. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

424. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

426. “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

427. “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

428. “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

429. “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

430. “I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn’t want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

432. “We all build upon our ruins.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

433. “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

434. “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

435. “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

436. “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

437. “Compromise is an imperfect act.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

438. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

440. “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

441. “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

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. “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

444. “Don’t make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what’s best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don’t like their choices.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

445. “Among the fey it was impolite to ask why a person was having hysterics. Hell, sometimes it was considered impolite to notice they were having hysterics at all. Usually that was for ruling royalty, though. Everyone had to pretend that the king or queen wasn’t bug nuts. Mustn’t admit that centuries of inbreeding had done any damage.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

446. “I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

447. “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

448. “I’ve been writing stories since I was 12. ‘Writer’s Digest’ was one of my writing teachers, actually.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

449. “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

450. “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