Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

I think like a detective.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

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

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

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

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.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

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

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.