I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

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.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.