939 Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

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

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

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

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

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 her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. 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.

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.