Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes - Page 5

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

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.

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified holster strapped to the headboard of my bed. The crucifix was cool metal around my neck. I was as safe as I was going to be and almost too tired to care. I took one more thing to bed with me, a stuffed toy penguin named Sigmund. I don't sleep with him often, just every once in a while after someone tries to kill me. Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

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.

Hesitation will get you killed.

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

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

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

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

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

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.