“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

American fantasy and romance writer

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer, best known for two series of stories. She is a contemporary author whose work has reached a wide readership, and 130 quotes from her are featured on this site. She is identified chiefly with those two story series, which have made her a familiar name in popular fiction. Her writing is rooted in fantasy and romance, and that is the extent of the biographical record available here.