Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

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.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

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