Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

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