Laurell K. Hamilton People Quotations

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

People go away and they don't come back.

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 was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it?" Would I be calling you if I had?" Maybe," I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it." Why not?" Friendship." Try again," I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." Comforting...

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

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 just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

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

Vampires are people too!

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

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.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

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.