Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes: 35

• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Mistral's Kiss

• There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

• Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

  Blue Moon

• Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  Burnt Offerings

• My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

  A Stroke of Midnight

• Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

• Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

  Cerulean Sins

• Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

  Circus of the Damned

• Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

  A Stroke of Midnight

• Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

  Incubus Dreams

• You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

  Guilty Pleasures

• I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

  Narcissus in Chains

• Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

  Danse Macabre

• One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

  Bloody Bones

• The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

  Micah

• 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.

  Circus of the Damned

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

  The Killing Dance

• Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

  The Laughing Corpse

• I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

• Why is everything always my decision?"I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

  Cerulean Sins

• His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

  The Laughing Corpse

• No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

  A Stroke of Midnight

• Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

  Bullet

• I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

  Burnt Offerings

• It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

  Guilty Pleasures

• The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

  Narcissus in Chains

• I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

  Obsidian Butterfly

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

  The Laughing Corpse

• There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

  Bloody Bones

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

  Flirt

• I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

  Narcissus in Chains

• 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

  The Harlequin

• 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

  Incubus Dreams

• Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

  Cerulean Sins

• when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope