I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

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

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

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

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.