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 never said I was consistent.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

More sex. We must have more sex.

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.