Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.