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.
So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.
Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.
Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
Not dating is a choice, not a failure.
I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
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.
Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. " It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.
Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?
Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.
If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.
Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.
Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection. " "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude. " "He hurt you. " "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.
Hatred makes us all ugly.
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
Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.
Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.