I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.