Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I shook my head. I'm good, Nicky helped.Nicky looked at Edward. She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments. Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. Then it feels good. We can't really control what flips our switch; don't judge it, Anita, and just accept it.I wanted to argue, but it would have been beyond stupid to argue with the two sociopaths in my life. Why do I have moral quandary questions with the two of you?Because you don't really have moral quandaries about violence, Anita, but you're afraid of being judged for enjoying it, so you only bring it to the two people in your life who won't judge you. I wanted to argue with Edward, but I couldn't. Well, fuck.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I’m 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 supposed to love and forgive to be punished 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 be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Believe this, Bitch.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard. I held up my hand before she could interrupt. But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting bears.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

What do you want?’'I want to play,’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery, it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Revenge was always the easy part, the hard part was living with it afterward.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

We call them survivors, but once the vampires get you, the person you were dies, like any traumatized part of you never leaves that room, that car, that moment, and you walk forward a ghost of your former self. You rebuild yourself over the years, but the person you were isn’t the person you become. The great bad thing happens, and you become a ghost in your own life, and then you become flesh and blood and remake your life, but the ghosts of what happened don’t go away completely. They wait for you in low moments, and then they wail at you, shaking their chains in your face and trying to strangle you with them.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

~ Laurell K. Hamilton