Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

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

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

Goddess" he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child." Will I see you again?" Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. "In the face of every woman you meet

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.

Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil, ... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

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 voice

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

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.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

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 write.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

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

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.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.