Quotes from Laurell K. Hamilton

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.

Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years," I said.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.