Love Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

Hamilton’s line is advocacy dressed as autobiography, and that’s why it lands. She doesn’t begin with policy, she begins with identity: “I love animals, always have.” The point isn’t to prove anything, it’s to establish a steady moral baseline - a lifelong attachment that makes helping the ASPCA feel less like a charitable choice and more like a consistent self-expression. “Natural” is doing quiet rhetorical work here, reframing activism as instinct rather than ideology, and pre-empting the eye-roll that often greets cause marketing.

Then she shifts from personal sentiment to a clear ethical claim: animals “have no voice of their own.” It’s a familiar metaphor, but effective because it smuggles in a power analysis without sounding like one. Voice equals agency; the lack of it implies vulnerability; vulnerability creates obligation. The “we” is the pivot: she recruits the reader into a collective role, turning private affection into public responsibility. It’s not “I will speak for them,” which could read paternalistic or self-congratulatory; it’s “we have to be that voice,” a soft imperative that makes complicity feel communal rather than accusatory.

Context matters: as a popular genre writer, Hamilton’s credibility isn’t academic or political - it’s emotional and narrative. She trades in empathy, outsiders, and bodies at risk; animal welfare slots neatly into that worldview. The subtext is that compassion isn’t a boutique preference. It’s a practice, and it counts most where the subjects can’t lobby, vote, or clap back.