What is it about her that is so goddamned special?

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter