I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people