Laurell K. Hamilton
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.Collection: Life
Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.Collection: Funny
Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.Collection: Stupid
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.Collection: Giving Up
Love is too precious to be ashamed of.Collection: Love Is
Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.Collection: Worry
Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?Collection: Monsters
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Trying
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.Collection: Romantic
Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.Collection: Issues
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.Collection: Lying
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation, but still thinks puppies are really cute.Collection: Cute
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.Collection: Lying
There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.Collection: Hurt
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Hate
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.Collection: Patience
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.Collection: Real
Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.Collection: Thinking
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.Collection: Memories
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character developmentCollection: Sex
There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.Collection: Circles
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.Collection: Fear
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.Collection: Hate
Hatred makes us all ugly.Collection: Hate
I`m not a morning person.Collection: Morning
When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.Collection: Dance
...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.Collection: Memories
Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.Collection: Smart
And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.Collection: Nice
Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.Collection: Children
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.Collection: Home
It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.Collection: Sorry
Not dating is a choice, not a failure.Collection: Dating
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to writeCollection: Dream
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he doesCollection: Thinking
I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voiceCollection: Animal
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 teensCollection: Children
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 moviesCollection: Thinking
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for othersCollection: Dream
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonderCollection: 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 printCollection: Book
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.Collection: Jobs
When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressedCollection: Funny Life
I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.Collection: Anger
I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.Collection: Coffee
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 timeCollection: Thinking
She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.Collection: Jobs