She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

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

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.