Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
Never argue when you're winning.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
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 movies
Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead. " "Ding dong, the witch is dead.
[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.
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.
The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
Knock your bad self out.
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.
When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed
I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
Pretend I asked, now answer the question.
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.