Top 450 Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

403. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

405. “I’m a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante’s inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of...”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

406. “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

407. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

409. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

411. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

413. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

415. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

417. “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

418. “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

419. “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

420. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

422. “Knock your bad self out.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

427. “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

428. “Compromise is an imperfect act.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

430. “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

431. “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

432. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

434. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

436. “We all build upon our ruins.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

437. “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

438. “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

439. “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

440. “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

441. “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

442. “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

443. “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

444. “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

445. “Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I’ve found that it’s so often the other way around.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

448. “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

449. “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

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton