939 Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto