Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

I believe love opens people up.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.