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

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both