No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

I am self-educated from genre books.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.