We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.