I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

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.

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.