Laurell K. Hamilton: Quotes about love

“Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.”

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

“I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.”

“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

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

“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“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.”

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

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

“If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.”