The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.