If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.