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

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

I wasn't like most girls.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.